date:Sep 27, 2013
t of the coffee consumed by the Cubans need to be imported at a cost of around 2 billion dollars every year.
Castro has warned that the country, affected by a two-decade crisis, cannot continue affording millions of dollars of such expenses and urged to recover the national production.
Cuba imported 18,000 tons of semi-processed grains from Vietnam in 2010 at a cost of 38 million dollars. The authorities have not yet released figures of the following year.
During 2011 to 2012, 7,100 tons of t