A farmer harvested a giant cucumber in an organic farm owned by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the province of Camagüey, reported the local broadcaster.
"Giant, that’s a cucumber! Produced in the organic farm of the Communist Party of Cuba in Camagüey. Excellent job by the producer; it will now be used for seeds and its pulp for a delicious dessert," noted the government-affiliated Radio Cadena Agramonte on Facebook.
Although neither the weight nor the dimensions of the fruit were specified, the photos show that it is indeed quite large.
The province of Camagüey apparently has fertile land for growing this vegetable.
In the municipality of Nuevitas, a man harvested a giant cucumber weighing 23 pounds. Harol Revé obtained it from a garden located behind the multifamily building No. 1 in the Residential 9 community a few years ago.
In the province of Artemisa, a giant cucumber measuring nearly one meter in length was also harvested. The fruit reached about 98 centimeters long and 26 centimeters in diameter, weighing 3.6 kilograms.
Also in Matanzas, a man grew a cucumber measuring 85 cm long, but it weighed an impressive 24 pounds. Adalberto Orihuela Orihuela, a resident of the former Cuba Libre sugar mill in the municipality of Pedro Betancourt, explained to the local newspaper Girón that the seed had come from Venezuela.
Although state-run media reports on these types of "unusual events," the sad reality is that Cuba is facing a deep food crisis.
Daily, the public reports on social media issues related to bread production and its poor quality, the high prices of essential foods like eggs, and also the government's ineffectiveness in addressing the current crisis, which is regarded as the worst in the past six decades.
Recently, the leader Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged that currently more than 70 percent of a Cuban family's expenses are devoted to food, in a context of scarcity and inflation caused by the regime's failed economic policies.
At a meeting on the topic, he requested an increase in the production of quality food "that reaches the people's table" and proposed raising the offerings.
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