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U.S. food sales to Cuba fall

By Reuters March 14, 2012

U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba declined six per cent last year on top of a 31 per cent decline in 2010 as the Communist-led island’s financial woes continued and it turned elsewhere to buy food, a trade group said Feb. 22. Cuba, which imports most of its food, gets chicken, corn, soy, wheat, pork and

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World’s Biggest Meat Packer Listening To His Mom

By Reese Ewing April 14, 2011

Wesley Batista is likely to take a little less heat from his mother from now on. The 40-year-old chief executive of the world’s biggest meat producer, Brazil’s JBS, says his mother is always complaining that the family business was buying too many companies in its zeal to expand. “My mom for years has been saying,

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Private Farming Lifts Output In Cuba Rice Province

March 10, 2011

Cuba’s most important rice-producing province should more than double output this year as new private farms and service cooperatives, improved organization and higher local prices kick in, a senior provincial official told Reuters March 1. President Raul Castro’s cash-strapped government has embarked on a program to cut food imports, and rice, which is a Cuban

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Cuba Frees Farmers To Sell To Havana Markets

By Marc Frank June 17, 2010

Cuba, yielding to public complaints, said June 11 it would allow farmers to sell more food directly to Havana’s often sparse produce markets, and also replaced the country’s agriculture minister. Farmers have long said the state failed to adequately move their produce to market, while consumers have complained food is often scarce and of poor

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Scientist Rewarded For Grassroots Agronomy

By Jeff Franks April 29, 2010

Asinging scientist who says the key to Cuba’s agricultural future lies in its agrarian past has become the first Cuban to win a U. S.-based Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s biggest award for grassroots environmentalism. Humberto Rios, 46, was announced as a prizewinner on April 19 in San Francisco along with five other activists from

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Cuba To Reorganize State Farms, Trim Bureaucracy

By Marc Frank November 19, 2009

“The urgency of reducing imports and increasing food production has accelerated solutions to this old problem…” Cuba’s Agriculture Ministry will cut thousands of bureaucratic jobs and reorganize its large state-run farms into smaller plots in a bid to reverse steadily declining food output, official media said Nov. 10. Communist Party newspaper Granma said that 89,000

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Cuba Grants Land To Thousands Of New Farmers

By Marc Frank February 26, 2009

Cuba has approved 45,500 land grants in the largest land redistribution since the 1960s, the Communist party Granma newspaper reported Feb. 2, as the country turns to the private sector to increase food production. “Deputy Agriculture Minister Alcides Lopez explained 96,419 applications had been received as of Jan. 22 … for 1,300,000 acres (650,000 hectares)

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Eating local way of life for Cuba

By Esteban Israel February 5, 2009

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba planted thousands of urban co-operative gardens to offset reduced rations of imported food. Now, in the wake of three hurricanes that wiped out 30 per cent of Cuba’s farm crops, the communist country is again turning to its urban gardens to keep its people properly

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Tens of thousands of Cubans seeking farmland

November 20, 2008

Cubans are applying for land by the tens of thousands for the first time since the 1960s as part of the Communist government’s reform of the state-dominated agriculture sector, a top farm leader said. The president of the National Association of Small Farmers, Orlando Lugo Fonte, told members at a meeting in eastern Guantanamo province

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Cuba faces food shortages after hurricanes

By Jeff Franks October 16, 2008

Cuban markets offered a dwindling selection of food and a growing expanse of empty shelves Oct. 1 as food shortages the government warned about after hurricanes Gustav and Ike became increasingly evident. Shortages were exacerbated in the Cuban capital when shipments from food suppliers slowed in a conflict with the government over newly imposed price

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U.S. food sales to Cuba fall

World’s Biggest Meat Packer Listening To His Mom

Private Farming Lifts Output In Cuba Rice Province

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Scientist Rewarded For Grassroots Agronomy

Cuba To Reorganize State Farms, Trim Bureaucracy

Cuba Grants Land To Thousands Of New Farmers

Eating local way of life for Cuba

Tens of thousands of Cubans seeking farmland

Cuba faces food shortages after hurricanes

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