date:Sep 27, 2013
resident Raul Castro has distributed over a million hectares of idle land to about 170, 000 people interested in working on them. But many of them turned out to be green hands in farming, which adversely affected their production.
Since President Castro took office in 2008, Cuba has hoped to increase its domestic production of coffee, a highly consumed product in the country.
Cuba has spent about 40 million U.S. dollars a year on the purchase of coffee on international market.
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