Cuban Agriculture

Las Tunas sets a goal of 38,000 tons of sugar for the upcoming harvest following the failure of the previous one

Luis Alberto García mocks the official discourse on the "Cuban-ness" of foods like rice and potatoes

Economist refutes claims of "excessive consumption" of rice in Cuba and highlights historic decline in cereal supply

Rice and potatoes, the most beloved "guilty" pleasures of Cuban cuisine

The host of "Cuadrando la caja" calls those who criticize the official suggestion not to eat rice or potatoes "worms."

Jorge Díaz mocks the state discourse that blames Cubans for eating rice and potatoes

Ulises Toirac erupts against the official call to abandon rice and potatoes: "People in this country do not choose what they are going to eat."

"There is no economy for a national solution": official TV admits there is no national way out of the agricultural crisis in Cuba

The regime requests to stop eating potatoes and rice: "They are not Cuban foods."

The government is concealing an agricultural crisis worse than that of the Special Period with propaganda, warns a Cuban economist

While Cubans stand in line for food, tons of mangoes are rotting unharvested

Valdés Mesa admits the bankruptcy of the state rice industry and suggests that private entities finance the machinery that the government cannot purchase

Vietnam allocates 50 million dollars to Cuban agriculture: Here’s how the new project in Artemisa will be

Cuban police dismantle an alleged illegal cattle sacrifice network in Guantánamo

Cuba will harvest tobacco using irrigation powered by solar energy

BioCubaCafé pays tribute to Guantánamo with luxury coffee that its residents will not see in their cups

From the debut to emptiness: the agricultural market in Guantánamo can't last even seven months fully stocked

"Brand" volunteer work: Díaz-Canel poses with a hoe and Adidas while the country remains mired in its crises

"Giant" fairs and modules for the vulnerable: the government's promise in Villa Clara for the end of the year

About 7,500 homes damaged in Holguín after the passage of Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa leaves coffee-growing areas of Buey Arriba isolated and threatens the harvest in Granma

Farmer reports government negligence following the opening of a dam that devastated his farm in Holguín

Díaz-Canel talks with tobacco producers in Pinar del Río while Melissa threatens eastern Cuba

Who picks the coffee? Massive exodus in mountainous areas affects coffee production in Santiago de Cuba

Marino Murillo sells the first batch of 150 tractors to tobacco farmers in MLC

Stuck on paper, hunger at the table: the farce of regulated prices in Havana's markets

Up to 16,000 pesos in fines: Regime tightens controls in agricultural markets of Havana

Díaz-Canel congratulates the sugar sector in a country without sugar: "Another achievement of socialism."

Ciego de Ávila is planting sunflowers to produce oil amidst the food crisis

Cuba imports 65 million eggs per month from the Dominican Republic, and producers fear losing the market

Holguín produced less than ten percent of its sugar plan in the recent harvest

Fines, forced sales, and confiscations characterize operations against vendors in Havana

Díaz-Canel addresses global challenges regarding "sovereignty and food and nutritional security."

Artemisa plants less than half of the planned sugarcane, and sugar prices continue to rise

Díaz-Canel uncovers how to lower prices in Cuba

Cuba imports agricultural products that it used to produce, while bureaucracy overwhelms the farmer

Livestock crisis in Cuba: Villa Clara lost over 15,000 animals in just one month

The rice that never arrives: The contrast between Díaz-Canel's tweets and Cuban reality

The government proposes to hand over land to "people with money" to produce rice in Cienfuegos

Díaz-Canel scolds Cuban agricultural producers: "It's not a lack of resources, it's a lack of will."

Artemisa opens its lands to Vietnam for export crops, while the Cuban tables remain empty

Cuban livestock remains "in debt" to Fidel Castro, according to a veteran expert

Government seizes tons of bananas in Granma and faces heavy criticism: “It won’t reach the people anymore.”

Sugar production in Cuba has fallen again to its lowest level in over 100 years

Horse stolen, reward offered for its recovery in Santiago de Cuba

And where is the milk? Camagüey will end this year with a deficit of over one million liters

Livestock industry in crisis in Las Tunas due to non-compliance, mismanagement, and poor animal feeding practices

Russian nanosilicon presented as a "miraculous" solution for agriculture in Cuba

Poultry farming in Pinar del Río is not taking off, while eggs remain scarce and expensive

Granma concludes a bitter harvest with only 27% of the expected sugar

State neglect and failed policies drive the livestock sector in Jobabo, Las Tunas, to collapse

Camagüey produced only 4,000 tons of sugar in the recent harvest

Pinar del Río with 19,000 hectares of idle land, while the population suffers from chronic food shortages

Energy crisis devastates over 385 hectares of tobacco in Consolación del Sur

Two citizens sentenced to six years in prison for illegal slaughter of livestock in Camagüey

Fires, logging, and less reforestation: the triple blow to Cuba's green lung

Wheat and sorghum: the agricultural experiment with which Guantánamo attempts to dodge the food crisis

Camagüey loses more than half of its milk production in five years

Potato harvest fails on the Isle of Youth: when the experiment costs the people's food

With less than 3,000 tons, the harvest in Guantánamo barely exceeds 38% of the planned target