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Monday, March 24, 2008
The Raul Castro administration has started the process of decentralization of a key industry in a territory ravaged by food shortages and unavailability of other commodities. Cuban farmers are now going to be allowed more autonomy to make decisions concerning land use, resource allocation and sales and these decisions will no longer be taken at a government level within the ministry but among the ranks of the local level, co operatives and other farmer organizations. David Jessop, director of the Caribbean Council, has said that the decision by Raul Castro " recognizes the need for a revolution in agriculture. By embracing Cuba's private farmers, the Cuban leadership is accepting the possibility and value of alternative models of production within the socialist system," Jessop said.
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