Cuba economy: Government seeks to revive food production
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- The Cuban National Assembly has just closed after a three-day session.
Cuba's economy grew by nearly 2 percent last year but the island nation is producing far fewer food staples than it did a few years ago.
Politicians are now scrambling to find solutions.
Al Jazeera’s Ed Augustin reports from the capital Havana.
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Glad to hear someone is increasing food production. Providing in your own food supply is always a good idea.
Hopefully the China, Russia and Iran Humanitarian Aid Programme will help alleviate shortages.
A truely Humane Gesture!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Blind leading the blind
You blame the embargo for them not being to grow their own food?
A trade embargo negative effects all parts of their economy. Directly and indirectly.
@@oscarmccoy9102communism has much drastic impact than embargo
@@DrSilktest7 it really doesn’t in the case of Cuba. The trade embargo is the reason as it only started when it was put in place under Trump.
@@oscarmccoy9102 you confiscate private properties and enterprises and expect life will be the same?
@@DrSilktest7they ”confiscated” plantations which used slaves 60 years ago. The problem started when Trump came to power, maybe understand the problem before talking about it?
As a Pakistani I fully support love respect and support Cuba and its beautiful people from Pakistan 🙂. Best regards from Pakistan 🙂.
Here's an idea ....... how about allowing the farmers to earn a living ? Allowing them to grow extra food and sell it. They would incentive to grow food again. When you set up road blocks to catch and dump that "extra" on the roadside, it disincentivizes them to grow anything at all. The road back to prosperity is going to start with the farmer/food production
easy for you to say when youre not in a 64 year old blockade where no fertilisers, no seeds, no machinery and no export is allowed
@@tahaistheboss98 you have no idea what you are talking about. The government in their attempt to shut down the black market put up a road block/security check point to catch farmers transporting their goods into the city. Like all authoritarian regimes, they had to prove a point by dumping the goods at the side of the road and letting it rot rather than confiscating and putting it into the store. The end result was that some farmers chose not to farm for $6 per month. The state got zero produce from those farmers. The state, unable to feed the citizens had to use scarce resources to import food where they should be producing and exporting food.
So tell me again about the blockade!
Cuba need to
1. Remove the cap on people and not allowing people to do what they need and want to survive .
2. Create Industries and businesses
3.they need to create grocery stores to allow more farming and supplying and less street vending .
4.incorporate the use of solar power
5.get with other Caribbean nations
That would require letting up on state socialism. Are they really prepared to do that?
@@biteme9486then they need someone like Francisco Franco who will foucus on bringing industry and more freedom
@@American_Traditionalist1527 Maybe somebody that's a bit less authoritarian than Franco
@@biteme9486 well yeah, but Franco wasn't that harsh.
But maybe someone like Jair Bolsenero, or Duda in Poland. A Nationalists, and More Traditional values.
@@American_Traditionalist1527 Anyone who censors the media and doesn't allow for free elections sounds pretty harsh. Certainly not Hitler or Stalin levels of harsh, but still
Traditional values? What does that mean? I think you and i may have very different views
I'm surprised that China isn't targeting Cuba for investment.
Yeah and get hit by USA embargo
China is well aware of Cuba"s debt mess..The Cuban government has a bad history of not paying it's bills. If China does make deals with Cuba they will like many other countries --demand cash payment
Sure, must be because they know they would not be paid
People there don't want to work.
@@DemocracyAboveAll
The people there are barely even allowed to work let alone earn an honest living.
Breaks my heart 😪
Revive all you want and leave the United States out of it!
Tierra ,siembra vida y cosecharas...
What are China and Russia doing?
what? are you lost?
cuba is not next to either of those countries.
They like Cuba to annoy the USA.
@@willtheoctAnd Venezuela isn't? If I recall, Russia and PRChina aren't bothered that Venezuela is in the opposite side of the world for them when they made investments to their economy...
@@willtheoct Missile Crisis?
Cuba has what they chose to have.
by not selling out to imperialists. Prior to the revolution rural poverty was much higher and the life expectancy was only 50s
@@fate8007 😂 tell me...
@@ricfermi5886 i did tell you the facts. You Americans think Cubans want to be controlled by US corporations. They need self sufficient trade so dropping the embargo would help
@@defenderoftheuniverse it did. Tourism is the largest industry in Cuba and the pandemic has crushed the industry.
domestic Food production in cuba has dropped too.
@@fate8007Cuba is a Commie mess. Too bad the imperialists didn’t conquer them. But their state sucks 😂😂😂😂
Cubans people are kind but why there government not treat them well. A lot of people hungry. Government please help your country help people dont let them die because of hungry no food to eat
most successful socialist state
In Communism imaginary reality - yes😂
A Qatari government funded news channel talking about my country 😂
Better than white miami gusanos talking about cuba. Supporting the embargo is genocidal
This is a real socialist country 😂😂.
Exactly, it survived 64 years of embargo, 64 years of no trading with any other nation. Even when the soviet union collapsed, it still managed to survive on a completely isolated economy. Shows the strength of socialism. When COVID hit the US, their economy was crippled in months
😮omg
Commie mess 😂😂😂
And blame US for own mistakes😂