La+Comida+de+Cuba

**Cuba Food **     

 [|**Food**] ** production is a major industry they grow sugar kane, and citrus plants and trees, and coffee beans, and rice, and potatoes, and beans ; they farm livestock **

 [|**In terms**] ** of what livestock and food is grown, they grow sugar, tobacco, citrus, coffee, rice, potatoes, beans; and they raise livestock really all over the country. **

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: Webdings,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|**Cuba**] **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Webdings,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> imports food from the U.S. and a few other countries mostly petroleum, food, machinery, and chemicals.

They do not export many food apparently, I couldn't find very much information on it so they could keep the food right there within their own country.

20% of Cuba's population [|grows or raises food] and 35% of the [|land is used] for this purpose (to grow food or livestock.)

[|80% of the population] in Cuba lives in poverty every day partially due to "Special Period."

[|They have] very low food rations per day/ meal and they eat a lot of pork, rice, and beans. Black beans and white rice are often referred to as arroz congrí; which directly means “rice with gray.” Some fruits commonly found are avocados, mangoes, guava, and papayas. Now the effect of what is being called “Special Period” has taken effect in the past few years. Per day a person gets one piece of bread, per week one person gets three eggs, and per month you get one serving of fish or chicken. Only children under the age of eight are allowed any milk. If people try to get meat from a black market it can cost up to one month’s salary. This is the rationing that takes place; any other food for the family is up to the family to provide for themselves; some can’t even afford other things which means some days they won’t be fed. Guarapo is a traditional sugarcane drink.

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