Prensa Latina, the castro regime’s public relations agency has put out a release with the following headline:
Over 100,000 Eco-Farms in Cuba
First of all, I don’t there’s 100,000 farms of any type in Cuba. A large amount of the land is currently fallow. But I digress. The press release goes on to say that these farms are eco-friendly as a result of measures put in place in 1997 to cut the use of agrochemicals which castro’s PR firm says cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease.
These guys are geniuses. They can take the worst situation and find the silver lining. I mean how can you possibly find a way to put a positive spin on the fact that your country is so dirt poor due to economic mismanagement that you can’t even afford to buy pesticides.
The truth is that Cuba, once an agricultural powerhouse, now imports more than 75% of its food. Even sugar which was once Cuba’s chief export must be imported to meet local demand.
Eco-farms my ass.
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I ran into this video a few weeks ago:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8278469472635916938&q=bbc+cuba&total=179&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
Many of these “farms” are being constructed where buildings in Havana once stood. After they crumble, people clear them out to create small patches of greenery. So while there are no pesticides, I can imagine that all sorts of sewage and God knows what else are in the ground.
Of course, the BBC guy in the video is drooling all over the farms and the revolution and sustainable food… sigh.
Henry,
Someone must have mistaken “eco” Spanish for “echo” by “eco” for “green” … I’m sure that there are plenty of eco facilities in Cuba … as the unfortunate result of the “ricochet” made by all Cubans in their daily lives under the castro regime of the same misery, oppression and hopelessness!
I wish you well 🙂 Melek
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” ~ D.H. Everett
There was an article that made me see red, “Organic Cuba without Fossil Fuels,” a while back. Some scientific type raving about these urban farms.
Like everything else, the Cuban government uses the term “farm” rather loosely:
The definition of a farm for census purposes was first established in 1850. It has been changed nine times since. The current definition, first used for the 1974 census, is any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year.
http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/meta/long_AGN050202.htm
A patch of green in your balcony, backyard, front yard or vacant lot next to you doesn’t constitute a “farm.” It’s more like a “vegetable garden” if at all.
Give the Castro Regime 5 years to run the Sahara Desert and the poor Saharans would have to import SAND. -S-
*I mean how can you possibly find a way to put a positive spin on the fact that your country is so dirt poor due to economic mismanagement that you can’t even afford to buy pesticides.*
When my sister and I were kids, the government suddenly decreed that new scientific studies showed that children over 6 no longer needed milk, so they would no longer get any. I was 6 and my sister was 7, so we shared my ration. I later heard that they kept lowering the age at which kids no longer needed milk, due to newer scientific studies.