Midnight Mike
2008-04-06, 05:52 AM
Sat Apr 5, 3:12 PM ET
GUIRA DE MELENA, Cuba - In a country where almost everyone works for the communist state, dairy farmer Jesus Diaz is his own boss. He likes it that way — and so does the government.
Living on a plot of land just big enough to graze four dairy cows, Diaz produces enough milk to sell about four quarts a day to the state.
This is independent production on a tiny scale, but it has proved so efficient that Cuba has decided on a major expansion of its program to distribute underused and fallow farmland to private farmers and cooperatives.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_ ... up_farming (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_freeing_up_farming)
GUIRA DE MELENA, Cuba - In a country where almost everyone works for the communist state, dairy farmer Jesus Diaz is his own boss. He likes it that way — and so does the government.
Living on a plot of land just big enough to graze four dairy cows, Diaz produces enough milk to sell about four quarts a day to the state.
This is independent production on a tiny scale, but it has proved so efficient that Cuba has decided on a major expansion of its program to distribute underused and fallow farmland to private farmers and cooperatives.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_ ... up_farming (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_freeing_up_farming)