date:Mar 28, 2013
an opening to small businesses, with 400,000 people, including employees, now working in what's called the non-state sector.
SLOW GOING
It is slow going, with farm output up just a few percentage points since President Raul Castro, who replaced his ailing brother Fidel in 2008, began agricultural reforms as part of a broader effort to modernize the Soviet-style economy.
Local farmers and experts say resistant bureaucrats, cautious leadership, the state's continued monopoly on farm inputs and