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Nov. 12th 2009 - 5:23 pm UTC

Cuba drastically slashes “farm bureaucracy” to boost food production

Family farms and cooperatives provide 70% of Cuba’s perishables but the country still imports 80% of food consumed

One of the major ills of Cuba’s state-run agricultural enterprises is “the excess of non-productive personnel,” Communist Party daily Granma said this week. The newspaper estimated the number of redundant employees in the state farming sector at 89,000, or 26% of the total.

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