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Article Excerpt
By Chris Wright
[The author is editor of Industria Avicola, a monthly business magazine published by the Watt Publishing Co. for the Latin American poultry industry. The article is based on a trip to Cuba this spring.]
The Cuban poultry industry is in bad shape and has been for over a decade, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Cuba's departure from the Soviet Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON). The bottom line is that, in 1990, the Cuban poultry industry was self-sufficient and today it is not. The industry is painfully aware of its shortcomings but has to rely on chicken and egg imports to cover the market.
In 1989-1990, when Cuba was still part of COMECON, its annual poultry production was 2.7 billion eggs a year, 117,000 tons of chicken meat, and 2 million tons of animal feed.
Since 1990, egg production has dropped by 60%, chicken production by 20%, and feed production by 50%.
The limiting factor is feed costs. Cuba has to import feed from China, which is expensive, and...
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