date:Nov 11, 2013
Brookings Institution.
Remarkably, it provides space for private businesses to both produce and market foodstuffs in wholesale quantities, in open and healthy competition with the state, he said.
Cuban farmers and consumers have long complained that the state's monopoly on food sales is a disincentive to production, inefficient and leads to waste and poor quality produce.
Many times we do not produce all that we can for fear we will have nowhere to sell it, said farmer Diogenes Telles, in a p