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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It’s a bitter symbol of agriculture’s decline in Cuba. Supply shortages plague the country's farms, and have hit sugar especially hard. Farmer Cristobal Ramos is still hanging on. "I think ...

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 ...

Today, the industry is teetering on the brink with Cuba in the grips of a crushing economic crisis marked by frequent power blackouts and severe shortages ... old boss of a sugar cane-producing ...

Cuba's sugar cane industry ... of a crushing economic crisis marked by frequent power blackouts and severe shortages of basic supplies such as fuel, fertilizer and pesticides.