date:Jun 21, 2013
a cooperative that will operate it on the basis of supply and demand, the report said.
The private cooperative will be the first to operate in Cuba outside of farming and is one of some 200 privately run wholesale markets of all types set to open in the coming months.
They will range from food services and construction to transportation and shrimp breeding.
President Raul Castro, who replaced his ailing brother Fidel in 2008, began agricultural reforms a year later as part of a broad effort