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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Megan Janetsky

Droughts, rising sea levels, Cuba's agriculture under threat

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Yordán Díaz Gonzales pulled weeds from his fields with a tractor until Cuba's summer rainy season turned them into foot-deep red mud.

Now it takes five farmhands to tend to Díaz’s crop. That shrinks Diaz’s profit margin and lowers Cuba‘s agricultural productivity, already burdened by a U.S. embargo and an unproductive state-controlled economy.

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