Seeds of change in Cuban farming

[dipsydoodle]

It could be a scene straight out of the Wild West: a homesteader struggling to tame a wilderness and turn it into productive farmland to provide a living for himself and his family.

But this struggle of man against the land is happening in the central province of Camaguey in Cuba.

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Communist Cuba is undergoing one of the largest land redistributions since Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959; only this time it is leasing state-owned farmland to the private sector.

In a bid to boost production and reduce costly imports, President Raul Castro is offering small plots of unproductive state land to family farmers and private co-operatives.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8280441.stm

[Braulio]

1. Duh

Somebody ought to wake up Castro and tell him how it works.

[dipsydoodle]

2. He knows how it can be made to work

which may be more than you do.

Suggest you get the video of this : http://peakoil.blogspot.com/2006/05/power-of-community-how-cuba-survived.html

[Braulio]

3. Cuban Economic Failures

Cuba did "survive" the collapse of the Soviet Union. So what? Its economic system is terrible. It can't even grow the food its people need, and imports food from the evil empire. Now let's hear what you have to say about that.