Cuba Reports Upturn In Agricultural Production

Cuba's national statistics office has reported a significant jump in food production during 2009. According to the organisation, rice production was up 44.6% to 300,000 tonnes, dried bean production increased by 9.6% to 106,500 tonnes and milk production was up by 10.8% to 530mn litres. These figures tie in with a report from the New York-based US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council that suggested that the US exported 15% less food (in value terms) to Cuba in the first half of 2009. These increases have been attributed to government initiatives to boost output, which have been introduced to reduce the country's

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