Cuba’s Agriculture Minister, Ydael Perez Brito, on October 9 referred to Cuba’s “facing the challenge of feeding a country with only 440,000 producers, the high prices of raw materials and international and national transportation, the lack of fuel and blackouts.”[1]
In the last four years Cuba has gone from eight million to three million hens and from 96,000 pig breeders to 26,000 which are not in good condition.
Although Cuba has the annual capacity to plant about 200,000 hectares of rice, this year it is only using about 70,000.
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[1] ‘Regrets, justifications and promises’: Cuba’s agriculture minister confirms the sector’s disaster, Diario de Cuba (Oct. 10, 2024).
