date:Mar 28, 2013
a lack of financing are holding up growth.
Yet, deregulation is gradually taking hold and private supply chains, whose participants were once labeled parasitic middlemen and even criminals by authorities, are emerging, now with the state's blessing.
The farmers harvest all this in the mornings, put it in sacks and weigh it, then truckers bring it in, said purchaser Ariel Gonzales, leaning on his tricycle cart loaded with onions, garlic, carrots and other items at the Havana wholesale market.