Cuba all set for another bumper sugarcane crop

[Andrew English]

As I recall there was a time (around 1970 I think) when the Cuban government
wrecked the
economy mobilizing the entire workforce to try to harvest 10 million tons.
Afterward, they
criticized themselves and moved to a more balanced economic strategy.

-Andy English

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Cuba all set for another bumper sugarcane crop


>>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?
>