Another lie of Dan Christensen exposed
- From: PL <pl.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:38:54 +0200
Serial liar dan Christensen claims: 1/3 i.e. 33%
From published data:
Never below 42%.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FE483
In the mean time Cuba's agriculture has declined and exports have risen again;
The latest data:
From the WFP:
In Cuba, which imports 80 percent of its food, iron-deficiency anaemia is the commonest nutritional disorder: recent studies by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene show that anaemia prevalence in the eastern region is 56.7 percent among children under 2 and 20.1 percent in children aged 2–5.
Support for the National Plan on Prevention and Control of Anaemia in the Five Eastern Provinces of Cuba | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide
http://www.wfp.org/content/support-national-plan-prevention-and-control-anaemia-five-eastern-provinces-cuba
Agri-Food
Past, Present & Future Report
Cuba
March 2009
Although Cuba's agriculture sector has traditionally been vital to the
economy with such notable products as sugar, tobacco, citrus products,
and tropical fruits, it now imports approximately 80-85% of its
foodstuff requirements. In 1960, roughly 87% of Cuba's rural population
was engaged in agriculture production, and while about 66% of the
population is still engaged in agriculture, the sector lacks the
technology and investment needed to significantly modernize production.
Between the years 2000 and 2006 Cuba's agricultural imports almost
doubled. An estimated 15% of Cuba's total imports are agricultural.
http://www.ats.agr.gc.ca/latin/4678-eng.htm
Havana bling
Rory Carroll
12 April 2008 06:00
The most important change is in agriculture, in which mismanagement
has shrivelled cash crops such as sugar, tobacco and coffee and forced
the lush island to import 80% of its food. Now decision-making has
been decentralised and some restrictions lifted to give farmers more
incentive to produce.
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-04-11-havana-bling
Cuba imports approximately 80 percent of the food consumed by its 11.2
million inhabitants and had planned to spend $2 billion this year even
before the devastation wrought by Gustav and Ike.
http://havanajournal.com/business/entry/food-shortages-starting-in-cuba-is-=
the-system-freezing-up/
The island imports 80% of its food, at a cost of $2.5 billion, and its
huge trade deficit has soared this year by 70% to more than $11
billion, according to official figures out this week. That is only
partly covered by the $7.8 billion Cuba receives for "export services"=97
doctors and sports trainers sent to Venezuela in exchange for oil.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3D12851246
Although Cuba already imports 80 percent of the food that it's 11.2
million residents consume, analysts say the impact of the hurricanes
pushes the island into a crisis during a time of high food prices in
international markets.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=3Dc87faaa=
b5329d7d51fedc165d5b9ad2d
Cuba imports 80 percent of the food consumed by its 11.2-million
inhabitants, making it highly vulnerable to the commodity price shocks
and foreign currency swings in recent months. Cuba's imports this year
are estimated at $2.5-billion, up 56 percent from last year.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/article946886.ece
But overall Cuba is still reliant today on imports for 80% of its
total food consumption, and thus extremely vulnerable to world food
price fluctuations.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/763/39410
IMPORTA 80% DE NECESIDADES
Sector productivo cubano, muerto
En 1958, Cuba producia casi el 80% de los alimentos que consumÃa y era
el principal proveedor de hortalizas de EE.UU. Hoy es al reves: la isla
importa mas del 80% de la cesta básica y la mayor parte de los alimentos viene del "imperio", su quinto socio comercial, a pesar del embargo decretado en 1962. Actualmente, mas del 50% de las tierras cultivables estan ociosas.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/42389
To save communism, Raúl experiments with consumerism
Minor economic reforms by Castro's brother risk exposing inequality and encouraging the desire for change
Rory Carroll in Havana
The Guardian, Monday 7 April 2008
"The most important change so far is in agriculture, in which mismanagement has shrivelled cash crops such as sugar, tobacco and coffee and forced the lush island to import 80% of its food. Now decision-making has been decentralised and some restrictions lifted to give farmers more incentive to produce."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/07/cuba?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
Waiting for Obama | The Economist
This will be exacerbated by pressures from high food import prices (Cuba imports around 80% of its food needs), falling nickel prices (a main source of foreign exchange) and the hurricane-related losses. The country's already huge trade deficit soared in 2008 by 70%, to an estimated US$11bn.
http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12882233
Cuba News
Cuba imports around 80% of its food products and Raúl Castro recently implemented reforms in the farming sector in an attempt to stimulate domestic production. Cuba will have to import more food or face shortages.
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/cuba/news/cubanews.cfm
Cubasource (20 May 2009)
Cuba imports more than 80 percent of the food it consumes (EFE, 3/11/08).
http://www.cubasource.org/publications/chronicles/coc200811ec_e.asp
Note that Dan Christensen wants you to believe that he (no facts at all) and his propaganda should be believed over the reports of:
- the WFP, a specialized international agency with a local office.
http://www.wfp.org/content/support-national-plan-prevention-and-control-anaemia-five-eastern-provinces-cuba
- the Economist (a respected UK publication with an research department called "the intelligence unit" that prepares a report on Cuba each year)
http://www.eiu.com/index.asp?rf=0
- The Canadian government
http://www.ats.agr.gc.ca/latin/4678-eng.htm
- the Guardian (a left of center newspaper in the UK)
and Greenleft, ....
How pompous is this Stalinist apologist Dan Christensen that he dreams that he can convince anyone of his propaganda is beyond me.
he must have an utter disdain for people's intelligence.
Just a hint why Cuba needs to import food, Dan: the little production it has is either exported or goes to waste: 10 to 15%
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FE483
CUBA-AGRICULTURA
Los agricultores cubanos pierden toneladas de tomates por falta de envases
31/05/2009 - 23:13
- Noticias EFE
La Habana, 31 may (EFE).- Cuba perdió cientos de toneladas de una extraordinaria cosecha de tomate de alto rendimiento por no tener suficientes envases, por problemas de transporte y por una industria procesadora tecnológicamente atrasada y de capacidad limitada, informaron hoy medios oficiales.
Los últimos números del semanario "Bohemia" y el periódico "Juventud Rebelde", ambos oficiales, han publicado artículos que refieren las pérdidas ocasionadas por el retraso en trasladar a los comercios "el tomatazo", como han denominado la elevada producción registrada este año.
La noticia se suma a decenas de malos datos sobre la economía de la isla que han publicado medios oficiales en las últimas semanas, incluidas la caída de las exportaciones -cuadruplicadas por las importaciones-, la necesidad de racionar energía y la falta de liquidez del Estado cubano.
El productor Ignacio de Loyola dijo que "300 quintales de tomates (unas 14 toneladas) previstos para consumir fresco, pero al borde de la pudrición, se mandaron para la industria, al no disponer de suficientes envases".
"Por eso perdimos cerca del 40 por ciento de las ganancias previstas, porque el precio del destinado para la industria es inferior", añadió.
"Bohemia" indica en un artículo titulado "Los eslabones débiles de la cadena" que el transporte de Cuba, el único Estado comunista de América, "sigue demorando la recogida y traslado de las cosechas".
Según un ejecutivo de la comercializadora estatal Acopio, Herminio Ravelo, el problema con los envases (cajas) se debe a retrasos en el suministro de madera, porque los aserraderos dieron prioridad a la recuperación del medio millón de viviendas afectadas por los huracanes que azotaron la isla en 2008.
"Juventud Rebelde" señala que por la falta de transporte y de una infraestructura industrial capaz de asumir "picos" productivos, "en los andenes de varios establecimientos del país se pudrieron cientos de toneladas de tomate".
El presidente de una cooperativa de producción, Orlando Gómez, declaró que pudo haber conservas para todo el año, tanto de tomate como de hortalizas como la zanahoria, pero que "no hay un respaldo tampoco con pequeñas industrias" para procesar altos volúmenes.
Agregan los medios oficiales que la industria de procesamiento de productos agrícolas "está tecnológicamente atrasada" y que "se quedó detenida" en el año 2000, cuando se hundió la agricultura de la isla.
El director de Agroindustria de la Unión de Conservas del ministerio de Industria Alimenticia, Jacinto Rodríguez, coincidió en que la falta de envases "limita tanto como la tecnología instalada", y subrayó que deben "rescatarse" las capacidades mediante el cambio de algunos equipamientos.
Subrayó que la industria procesó 110.000 toneladas de tomate, pese a que su viejo andamiaje tecnológico está preparado para admitir sólo 47.600.
Los agricultores cubanos pierden toneladas de tomates por falta de envases | Noticias de Empresa (1 June 2009)
http://www.finanzas.com/noticias/empresas/2009-05-31/171317_agricultores-cubanos-pierden-toneladas-tomates.html
another "achievement" of the "revolution".
PL
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