Cuban Industry

Industry

Cuba has been based on monoculture and monoproduction since the very beginnings of the large-scale sugar industry towards the middle of the 18th century. With the Revolution's arrival, production and exportations diversified into other economic branches. Sugar continued to prevail as the main crop up until the first years of the 1990s, when the deep crisis took over, prices sank and the sales market was lost.

The City of Havana is the highest industrialized area in the country, whereas in other cities like Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos, only some specific products are manufactured. Barely ⅕ of the workers are employed in this sector, including mining and power generation. The main Cuban economic branches are: cement, food items, sugar, machinery, chemicals, fertilizers, furniture, textiles, leather, paper and cardboard