Vietnam and Cuba Experts Debate on Food Security

 

 

By Redaction AHORA / redaccion@ahora.cu / Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:51 Experts from Vietnam and Cuba on Wednesday are debating the challenges of agricultural development and measures to provide sustainable food security. Changes to the Cuban agricultural system and production plans were of interest to Vietnamese officials, who see process of renewal in Cuba as their own.In this respect Dr. Miguel Limia noted that the new vision of the Cuban economic model is aimed at reducing food imports and producing enough even for exports.Limia assessed the Vietnamese experience in growing rice on small plots of land and management methods for a more efficient link between agricultural production and industry.He alerted against idealizing a process that still faces resistance to change, both organizational and mental, and that also requires encouragement for repopulating the countryside.They are working in that sense to reduce migration to the cities and increase productivity of the lands the Cuban state has handed over in usufruct since 2008.Cuba pays attention to the system used in Vietnam, where serious food problems began to be solved after the beginning of "Doi Moi" in 1986, a process of renewing methods and concepts.