{"id":15427,"date":"2011-11-23T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15427"},"modified":"2011-11-23T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:01:42","slug":"cuban-farmers-soon-to-sell-directly-to-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/cuban-farmers-soon-to-sell-directly-to-tourists","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Farmers Soon To Sell Directly To Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15434\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15434\" title=\"cuban-farmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cuban-farmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cuban-farmer.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cuban-farmer-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man waits for customers at his food stall in Havana. Photograph: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HAVANA \u2013 Cuban farmers will soon be able to bypass the state and start selling products directly to businesses catering to tourists, state-run media said yesterday in announcing the latest market-oriented reform in one of the world\u2019s last communist countries.<\/p>\n<p>Communist Party newspaper Granma said the change, which takes effect on December 1st was aimed at improving the variety and quality of food available to the tourist sector, cutting transportation costs and reducing the food losses that have plagued the country because of inefficiencies in getting harvested products to market.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will allow the development of ways to \u201cbetter take advantage of the potentialities . . . at the local scale,\u201d the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism is one of Cuba\u2019s most important sources of foreign exchange, with 2.7 million visitors expected to the Caribbean island this year, but poor food and service are frequently cited as reasons for tourists coming once and not returning.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulations break from the past by reducing the state\u2019s role as the middle-man in getting farm products to the tourist industry and by allowing buyers and sellers to set their own prices.<\/p>\n<p>The change follows recent moves to allow Cubans to more freely buy and sell houses and cars, both of which were severely restricted after Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution, and other reforms aimed at modernizing the island\u2019s state-dominated Soviet-style economy.<\/p>\n<p>President Raul Castro, who succeeded older brother Fidel Castro in 2008, is trying to revive Cuba\u2019s moribund economy to ensure the survival of communism once the current generation of leaders is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Source: irishtimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest market-oriented reform, Cuban farmers will soon be allowed to sell products directly to businesses catering to tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,40,59,33],"class_list":["post-15427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-government","tag-islands","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}