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Although this was a good figure it was insufficient to enable the country to reach the target of 10 million tons in 1970 set by Castro. The report says that if 1968 harvest is a bad one the Cubans once again will be obliged to decrease the
This amount is sold at a amount sold to the Soviet Union.
The Cuban price four times that of world market prices. communists have done away with overtime and raised the price of tobacco but at the same time they have made telephone calls and attendance at sports meetings free of charge.
the Cubans produced 6 million tons of sugar.
The report goes on to analyse the production figures for various commodities such as coffee, rice, cotton and vegetables and to suggest that increase in production in these and other commodities have not benefited the consumers since commodities have been exported in order to bring in
The article ends by urgently needed foreign exchange.
sying that although 1967 was a year of stagnation it was one in which technical personnel were trained, more tractors were produced and more roads were built than before. Nevertheless, as far as the Cuban people were concerned, it was a hard year.
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Report from Reuters London of 2 January.
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