date:Nov 11, 2013
ers outperforming state farms on a fraction of the land, authorities are gradually deregulating the sector and leasing fallow land to would-be farmers.
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.
Many aspects of the new law bring together reforms already in place or activities that have spontaneously dev