Countries all over the world are experiencing issues with agriculture for a host of reasons; some of those issues have gone ...

Santiago Maylin ALONSO, Rigoberto DIAZ Cuba’s sugar cane industry ... crisis marked by frequent power blackouts and severe shortages of basic supplies such as fuel, fertilizer and pesticides.

Not this time," says Ricardo Torres, a Cuban economist at American University in Washington, D.C. He says Cuba's problems, from food shortages ... milk and sugar in an effort to appease the ...

prompting shortages in food, fuel and medicine," the outlet said. The ramping-up of Cuba's economy led to private businesses, rather than state-owned stores, opening for the first time — which ...

Cuba has since ... beans, sugar, cooking oil and coffee, though those deliveries have been scaled back over the years as an economic crisis has led to shortages and high prices.

She managed to get five pounds of rice and two pounds of sugar, but complains that this is only part of the monthly subsidized ration she is entitled to. Cuba's worst economic crisis since the 1990s ...

Artemisa (Cuba ... shortages of basic supplies such as fuel, fertilizer and pesticides. "It is the worst time in the history" of the industry, said Reinaldo Espinosa, the 54-year-old boss of a ...

Cuba's sugar cane industry, once the world leader, first lost the United States as its main client 60 years ago, then the Soviet Union three decades later. Today, the industry is teetering on the ...