About 100 "inefficient [farm] enterprises" will be shut down this year "to spur production in this sector, which is considered by the government to be strategic," the official daily Granma reported Monday, citing Agriculture Minister Ulises Rosales del Toro.
Rosales revealed the closings at a meeting of the National Association of Small Farmers held in Santa Clara. He said the companies – which he did not describe or list – "are not profitable in the current economic situation."
About 40,000 workers who are indirectly dependent on farm labor will be relocated, the minister said. He did not say if they will remain in farm work or retrained into other trades.
"To increase efficiency and production," Cubans need "to adjust our own mechanisms and transform the work of the farmers," Rosales was quoted as saying.
The decisions are in line with a pronouncement by Raúl Castro last Dec. 20, when he told the National Assembly that "the development of our agriculture constitutes a matter of national security" and warned that, in the pursuit of increased production, "trims can be made in all of the nation's activities."
–Renato Pérez Pizarro.
About 40,000 workers who are indirectly dependent on farm labor will be relocated, the minister said. He did not say if they will remain in farm work or retrained into other trades.
"To increase efficiency and production," Cubans need "to adjust our own mechanisms and transform the work of the farmers," Rosales was quoted as saying.
The decisions are in line with a pronouncement by Raúl Castro last Dec. 20, when he told the National Assembly that "the development of our agriculture constitutes a matter of national security" and warned that, in the pursuit of increased production, "trims can be made in all of the nation's activities."
–Renato Pérez Pizarro.
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