Cuba all set for another bumper sugarcane crop

[Brad De Long]

>The Economic Times Online
>Wednesday APR 26 2000
>
>Cuba all set for another bumper sugarcane crop
>
>HAVANA 25 APRIL
>CUBA'S '99-00 sugar harvest has already surpassed last season's bumper crop
>of 3.78m tonnes and is fast approaching this year's planned target, which
>will be well over 4m tonnes, state news media said here on Monday...
>Whatever the final production figures for the '99-00 harvest, it will still
>be a far cry from the 7 and 8m harvests achieved in the industry's heyday of
>previous decades. - Reuters
>

Why so low?