Cuba to Eliminate Subsidies on Farm Inputs and Equipment

HAVANA TIMES – Inputs and equipment which are currently delivered to Cuban farmers at subsidized prices will begin to be sold “at market prices without subsidies”, said Vice President Marino Murillo Jorge before the Council  of Ministers on Friday.

According to a Granma newspaper report, Murillo said that “measures will be taken in order to avoid, where possible, the price increase affecting the general population.”

As part of the restructuring of the agricultural sector, the government will also allow producers to market their products and services according to market demand, once they meet after they fulfill their contracts for sales to the State.

The new form of marketing will begin as a pilot project in 2014 on the Isle of Youth, and may spread to the rest of the country.

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