Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry

One of the key issues that faces Cuban policymakers today, and will face them in the future, is what to do about the sugar industry--an industry that in 2002 consisted of nearly one-half of the nation's land under cultivation. The loss of preferential markets for Cuban sugar that arose from the denise of the international socialist community constitutes a crisis that the Cuban government has only begun to address. The premise of this volume is that there is a future in the twenty-first century for a reinvented Cuban sugar agroindustry, responsive to market signals, organized around smaller and more agile production units, producing raw sugar as well as high value-added outputs, and using some of the facilities to produce ethanol and generate electricity.Perez-Lopez, Jorge F. is the author of 'Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry', published 2005 under ISBN 9780739110003 and ISBN 0739110004.