Coffee in Cuba. XIX, XX centuries and current situation
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A revision of the coffee production is made in Cuba, the technician-productive aspects and the influence of the sociopolitical events in the national and international environment. The presence of the French and Haitian colonists’ immigration (Franco-Haitian) ones was decisive in the introduction of new technologies for the cultivation of the coffee and creation of the environment of socio-productive development in the mountainous areas where those were established. The above-mentioned witness is the ruins of the coffee plantations of the country east, declared the Patrimony Humanity’s for the UNESCO.A summary of the coffee production in the first half of the XX century, penury stages and low growth the régime of capitalist exploitation was carried out. Although a significant production was achieved high yields/ha no were not reached, being very inferior to those of other countries producing of the grain what indicates that the obtaining of high productions was determined to establish big plantations of the cultivation. The Revolution period meant a substantial change for coffee and mountaineers in general, standing out the holding of the earth for the Law of the Agrarian Reformation transforming them into proprietors, the coffee grower also had available and gratuitously the services to that are entitled all the Cubans. The current situation reflects the efforts that are carried out to increase the production of the coffee under economic limitations conditions that has suffered our country.
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