Insights and Stories on Cuba

In first, Cuba leases farmland to foreign firm

Jan. 8, 2025 at 10:58 am CST

Cuba said on Wednesday it had leased farmland to a Vietnamese company to grow rice, a first since the 1959 revolution which kicked all foreign landowners out.

U.S. ag businesses want Biden to allow more investment in Cuba

Apr. 4, 2023 at 2:50 pm CDT

By Nelson Acosta

U.S. farmers slam Trump’s Cuba clampdown

Jun. 16, 2017 at 8:19 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. farmers ask Trump to stay the course on Cuba

Jan. 14, 2017 at 3:57 pm CST

By Marc Frank

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

Apr. 30, 2016 at 3:29 pm CDT

By Marc Frank

Cuban export opportunities eyed for U.S. farmers

Mar. 16, 2016 at 4:22 pm CDT

Lima | Reuters –– U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that farm officials want to lay the groundwork so U.S. agricultural exporters can seize new opportunities in Cuba if the trade embargo on the country is lifted. The normalization of trade relations would allow U.S. farmers to use […]

By Reuters

A field of sugarcane under a cloudy sky.

Cuba produces best sugar harvest in 11 years

May. 30, 2015 at 2:40 pm CDT

Havana | Reuters — Cuba’s sugar harvest grew 18 per cent this year to 1.9 million tonnes, the most for the beleaguered industry in 11 years and the best performance since the state sugar company Azcuba was founded in 2011, official media said on Friday. The Communist Party daily Granma […]