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Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry (Hardcover, New)
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Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry (Hardcover, New)
Series: Rural Economies in Transition
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One of the key issues that faces Cuban policymakers today, and will
continue to face them, is what steps to take in order to ensure the
future of the sugar industry. In 2002, nearly one-half of the
country's cultivated land was occupied by the 156 fully functional
sugar mills, more than a dozen plants and refineries, and the
complex transportation infrastructure brought about by the
commerce. The loss of preferential markets for Cuban sugar that
arose from the demise of the international socialist community
constitutes a crisis that the Cuban government has only begun to
address, with a radical restructuring plan that would foresee the
reduction of sugar land and the elimination of about 100,000 jobs,
for increased economic emphasis on tourism. The radical premise of
this volume is that there is a future in the twenty-first century
for a reinvented Cuban sugar agroindustry, responsive to market
signals, organized around smaller and more agile production units,
producing raw sugar as well as high value-added outputs, and using
some of the facilities to produce ethanol and generate electricity.
The editors have asked over a dozen recognized world experts on
Cuban agroindustry to analyze specific topics and make
recommendations that would not only reinvent an industry for
effective transition to a free-market environment but that has the
potential to reinvigorate the Cuban economy, providing employment
opportunities and generating wealth for generations of Cubans to
come.
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