Cuba giving land to private farmers

[Ed Mahmoud]

Cuba giving land to private farmers

GUIRA DE MELENA, Cuba - In a country where almost everyone works for the communist state, dairy farmer Jesus Diaz is his own boss. He likes it that way — and so does the government.

Living on a plot of land just big enough to graze four dairy cows, Diaz produces enough milk to sell about four quarts a day to the state.

This is independent production on a tiny scale, but it has proved so efficient that Cuba has decided on a major expansion of its program to distribute underused and fallow farmland to private farmers and cooperatives.

[wyq614]

Cuba is taking measures to privatize some arable land just like what China did in 1979. It's a big progress.