La Habana_ Animal feed, sugarcane agriculture, bioproducts, energy, alcohol and beverages, economy and other six topics will be discussed at the XIV Congress on Sugar and By-products, Diversification 2017, which begins here on Monday, Prensa Latina reports.

Arodis Caballero, director of the Cuban Institute for Researches on Sugar Cane by-Products, explained that the event includes a scientific event, a business forum, Trade Fair, the XXIII Latin American Congress and the III Ibero-American of Weed, and a China-Latin America seminar.

More than 500 written and oral papers - from which no less than a hundred correspond to foreign authors - will be discussed, dealing with by-products, the environment, sugar technology, weeds, quality, technology and equipment and informatization.

Caballero said that the business forum is intended to facilitate and enhance the exchange of foreign capital investments, the export of products, services, equipment and technologies from national institutions.

42 companies from Sweden, China, Panama, Australia, Mexico, Spain, France, India, Brazil, Cuba-England and Israel, will exhibit their products and services in 35 stands.

It includes the launching of the business portfolio of the Cuban sugar industry, which includes energy, sorbitol, expansion of distilleries and mechanical production, among other areas.

Sugar merchants Wilmar, Ed & Fman Sucden, LDC, Agrana, Nordic Sugar, Czarnikow, Mitsui, Itochu, Glencore, and Cofco Agri have been invited as well as the executive director of the International Sugar Organization, Jose Orives.

About the China-Latin America Seminar, the director of ICDCA stated that it is pursuing academic exchange, staff training, technology transfer and industrial cooperation in clean energy, climate change, sustainable development and electric vehicles between China and Latin American countries.

Present at the press conference were also the commercial director of Icica, Barbara Hernandez, and the director of International Relations of the Azcuba Sugar Group, Rafael Rivacoba, who meant that the growing foreign participation in these events is due to the confidence of the international business community in the recovery of this sector and the economy of the country

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