Pipilenca Guanaco wrote:
> Hablar de racionamiento de productos alimenticios, es cosa que los
> propagandistas tradicionales han querido vincular al modo de producción
> comunista, como para acentuar su fracazo productivo
Y tienen razón.
hasta Raul Castro quiere trasladar la tierra a los campesinos
independientes.
http://cuba.blogspot.com/2008/04/cuban-leader-looks-to-boost-food.html
http://cuba.blogspot.com/2008/04/communist-cuban-solution-private-farms.html
Cuba tiene que im****tar 84% de los alimentos distrinuidos en el sistema
de racionamiento:
"The official said that Cuba currently invests around $1 billion USD per
year to im****t 84 percent of the basic foodstuffs distributed to the
population.
She noted that these im****ts along with oil constitute the government's
largest expenditures."
(AIN)
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art72.html
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/02/26/nacional/artic02.html
AIN website:
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2007/feb26economiacuba.htm
> (no les im****ta la
> justicia en el reparto de los bienes).
Quieren que hay mas para compartir.
Ejemplo: arroz.
Antes de Castro Cuba era auto suficiente en producción de arroz. Era
ademas un país ex****tador de productos alimentarias.
Hoy Cuba produce menos arroz que en 1959 y tiene una productividad mas
bajo.
En la república Dominicana mientras la productividad ha doblado.
Castro's destruction of nutrition.
Rice is the staple of Cuban food. Cubans where no bread eaters. they ate
rice.
"After WW2 im****ted rice was difficult to obtain and costly, so Cuban
farmers had an incentive to grow rice. In 1949 Cuba produced 10 percent
of domestic consumption. In 1960, the year after Castro came to power,
the Cuban rice harvest was 400,000 metric tons, making Cuba for the
first time self-sufficient in rice. During the decade of the fifties,
Cuban producers had successfully adopted the latest methods of rice
farming employed in Louisiana and Texas. From the point of technological
expertise, rice
production outstripped that of any other branch of Cuban agriculture;
and in terms of money value, rice became one of Cuba's major crops.
By 1962, with Cuban agriculture socialized, the rice yield was reduced
by 50%. The same year, as has already been noted, the rationing of
foodstuffs was introduced, with the rice ration set at 6 pounds per
person per month. That lowered per capita consumption by two thirds.
More over, for low-income Cubans, for whom rice formed amore
substantial part of their diet, the reduction was even greater."
M. Halperin, Return to Havana, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville,
1994, p.49-50.
A well functioning free market ensured that from a shortage in 1949
break even was achieved by 1960. Castro ruined the industry by 1962. In
two years 50% of the annual need in rice were no longer met.
In 1966 the rice ration was again reduced by half to 3 ponds per person
per month. that is down from 18 to 3 ponds since the start of the
dictator****p.
The reason was: the deal that Castro himself had made with China on the
supply of rice fell through when Castro didn't deliver the promised
sup****t in their "polemic" with the SU.
(for details on the rice Crisis and the Cuba - China quarrel see: M.
Halperin, Taming of Fidel Castro, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1981, p. 195-207.)
"Thus in 1965, Cuban rice production had dwindled to 50,000 tons..."
M. Halperin, Return to Havana, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville,
1994, p.50..
Why did Castro need to reduce rice productions even further: to grow
more sugar to reach his (foolish) goal of 10 million tons of sugar in
1970.
He never made it, but destroyed the production of a staple food while at
it.
Gross incompetence. Criminal negligence.
At the end of 1989 the rice ration was 5 pounds. Down from an average
consumption of 18 pounds before the revolution.
Last I saw that is still the same outside Havana with a 20% larger
ration of 6 pounds in Havana.
Cuba is the only country in Latin America whose production of rice has
fallen since 1958, when it ranked fourth in the region in production of
this staple. Two of the countries ranking ahead of Cuba in rice
production in 1958 -- Colombia and Peru -- have since seen their rice
production grow by more than three fold. Cuba's Caribbean neighbor, the
Dominican republic, has increased its rice production by four fold since
1958. Perhaps even more telling are Cuba's yields per hectare in rice
production. Whereas the Dominican Republic has increased rice yields
from 2100 kg per hectare in 1958 to 5400 kg per hectare in 1996, Cuba's
yields today are only 2500 kg per hectare, a negligible increase from
the 2400 kg per hectare registered in 1958, according to UN FAO data.
http://www.netforcuba.org/InfoCuba-EN/Economy/Production.htm
> Hablar de Cuba y la libreta de racionamiento, es tema obligado cuando se
> trata de mostrar las debilidades de ese sistema: no hay libertad de
> compra y consumo, se afirma.
no hay libertad de elegir lo que uno produzca como campesino.
http://cuba.blogspot.com/2008/04/campesinos-esperan-que-las-reformas-les.html
Depende del gobierno ineficiente para todo.
Cuando hay cosecha no hay cajas o trans****te.
**** eso mucho se pierde.
"Food availability is the result of a number of factors, with food waste
as one of them. As noted in a previous section of this fact sheet,
another use of food balance sheets is the quantification of a country's
food waste measured against the amount of food available for onsumption.
Figures for some of Cuba's perishable commodities have been provided to
FAO by the Cuban government for the 1980-1997 period (Table 1 ). During
the entire study period, more than 4.3 million tons of these products
(an average of almost 240,000 tons per year) were wasted. The ratio of
food waste over food available ranged from more than 10% to almost 15%."
Increased dependency on im****ts "Interesting results are obtained when
one compares Cuba's im****t dependency ratios before and after the 1959
revolution. The figures for the 1980-1997 period range from a low of 42%
in 1997 to a high of 70% in 1980. As re****ted by Nova González (1993, p.
76), data taken from official Cuban sources of that time include 31% in
1954, 23.3% in 1955, and 20.7% in 1956. It is obvious that, with the
passage of time, Cuba has become more dependent on foreign sources to
feed its population.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FE483
Perdidas de 10 a 15% de la poca producción.
Los precios que reciben los campesinos son ta bajos que no vale la pena.
> Y cuando uno habla de restricciones, limitaciones, cuota de
> racionamiento alimenticio, no se quiere vincular eso al bloqueo
> económico,
(snip)
los EE.UU son el primer proveedor de productos alimentarios de Cuba y lo
son desde 2003.
Siempre venden mas a Cuba:
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=214162
Contribuyen la tercera parte de los productos alimentarias cuales van al
racionamiento:
"According to Alim****t, in 2006, the total in im****ts and related costs
paid to U.S. companies exceeded $570.8 million."
"Currently, Cuba im****ts some 7.8 million tons of foodstuffs. Of that,
95% is allocated for the family basket of goods guaranteed to every
Cuban household (a rationed distribution of products such as rice,
legumes, sugar, coffee, milk, meats, etc.) by the state"
"In opening the recent round of negotiations, Alvarez noted that from
the start of this one-way trade, ALIM****T has made contact with more
than 4,351 companies in 45 U.S. states, and has signed agreements worth
$2.431 billion."
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/mayo/juev31/agreements-100-million-purchases.html
"La economía cubana necesita incrementar la producción de alimentos y
reducir las im****taciones, en las que invierte unos mil millones de
dólares anuales, indicó la viceministra de Economía y Planificación,
Magalys Calvo. Cuba im****ta anualmente el 84% de los alimentos
destinados a la canasta básica, que incluye un grupo que se distribuye a
la población a precios subvencionados, según dijo la funcionaria en una
reunión de legisladores en la provincia oriental de Camagüey, informa
hoy el diario oficial "Granma"."
http://www.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.asp?subclasid=&clasid=&idNoticia=1702551
"Cuba last year spent about $1.6 billion on food im****ts, which made up
84 percent of the food products offered to the public at subsidized
prices."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-0408,0,6585667.column
Mas info:
More than three million beneficiaries on the island of Cuba - BY JOAQUIN
ORAMAS
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2001
Source : Granma International
WFP Activities
On 28 April 2005, WFP approved an emergency operation to take care of
over 770,000 people facing nutritional deterioration as a result of the
drought. Within the area of food assistance for development, the
assistance has targeted vulnerable groups such as children under five,
pregnant women and people aged 65 years and older.
To contribute to the improvement of the nutritional status of the most
vulnerable populations living in the eastern provinces, a development
project has been under implementation since 2002 and assists more than
593,000 people per year.
WFP assisted 165,783 children under five, and 45,908 pregnant and
lactating women with the purpose of improving their nutritional status
and reducing anaemia. WFP also provided fortified foods to 376,652
school-aged children and food assistance to 6,849 people over 65 years
of age.
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