{"id":664571,"date":"2022-02-26T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/?p=664571"},"modified":"2022-02-26T07:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T04:29:29","slug":"cuban-tobacco-yield-up-in-smoke-amid-fertilizer-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2022\/02\/cuban-tobacco-yield-up-in-smoke-amid-fertilizer-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban tobacco yield up in smoke amid fertilizer shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Vi\u00f1ales (Cuba) (AFP), Feb 26 &#8211; <\/i>Yurisniel Cabrera, 35, is a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, eking out a meager living from the leaves used to make Cuba&#8217;s fabled cigars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clients can fork out more than $10 for a single cigar, but for his months of labor, Cabrera earned only a few hundred US dollars from last year&#8217;s harvest.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the outlook is even bleaker.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions-stricken and facing its worst economic crisis in nearly three decades, Cuba is running low on fertilizers and pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>The harvest &#8220;is not of a good enough quality,&#8221; Cabrera sighed as he showed AFP around his crop amid the rounded hills dubbed mogotes that dot the fertile Vinales valley in western Cuba.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664567\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664567\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/af90deb2b192ee0681d87768bc80b276e9c4e4a6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/af90deb2b192ee0681d87768bc80b276e9c4e4a6.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/af90deb2b192ee0681d87768bc80b276e9c4e4a6-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-664567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under sanctions and facing its worst economic crisis in nearly three decades, Cuba is running short on fertilizer and pesticide for its crucial tobacco harvest \u00a9 <b>AFP \/ YAMIL LAGE<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It lacked fertilizer and pesticide,&#8221; he said as he slipped a pile of leaves draped over his arm onto a &#8220;cuje,&#8221; the wooden lathe used to dry the harvest in a rustic, wooden &#8220;tobacco house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like other farmers in Pinar del Rio province, where 65 percent of Cuba&#8217;s tobacco is produced, Cabrera sells 95 percent of his yield to the Tabacuba state agency.<\/p>\n<p>What remains is for private use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; State sets the price &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>In Cuba, the government provides pesticides and fertilizers to state-run cooperatives, and sets the price at which farmers can obtain them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664568\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664568\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/be686ea620fedb9a8a79640012e14f1b616df334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/be686ea620fedb9a8a79640012e14f1b616df334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/be686ea620fedb9a8a79640012e14f1b616df334-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-664568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The leaves are placed on wooden lathes to dry in a rustic, wooden &#8216;tobacco house&#8217; \u00a9 <b>AFP \/ YAMIL LAGE<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tabacuba determines the price paid for the farmers&#8217; tobacco, based on the quality of the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to buy all the product from them (the authorities),&#8221; explained farmer Livan Aguiar, 49, from the settlement of San Juan and Martinez, near Vinales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They give me the fertilizer, the fungicide&#8230; at the end of the harvest they charge me for everything,&#8221; he said while cutting tobacco on the land he uses on a state usufruct.<\/p>\n<p>Like Cabrera, Aguiar is concerned about the impact the lack of fertilizer will have on his yield and income this season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664569\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664569\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/b73261205832376936b3739ba05003d9de969caa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/b73261205832376936b3739ba05003d9de969caa.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/b73261205832376936b3739ba05003d9de969caa-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-664569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuba&#8217;s tobacco harvest has fallen from 32,000 tons in 2017 to 25,800 in 2020 and will likely reach only 22,000 tons this season \u00a9 <b>AFP \/ YAMIL LAGE<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tabacuba executive Pavel Noe Caseres explained that importing agricultural chemicals had been &#8220;complicated&#8221; this season, due to logistical bottlenecks caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and ongoing US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The harvest has fallen from 32,000 tons in 2017 to 25,800 in 2020 and will likely reach only 22,000 tons this season, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The impact would mainly be on domestic consumers, as the country has enough tobacco in store to produce export cigars for two years, added Caseres.<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco is Cuba&#8217;s main agricultural export.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664570\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664570\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/3af5acd2f7ae612a4be342c46d71f5ddb65dc05b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/3af5acd2f7ae612a4be342c46d71f5ddb65dc05b.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/3af5acd2f7ae612a4be342c46d71f5ddb65dc05b-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-664570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Tabacuba agency buys all the tobacco produced in the country \u00a9 <b>AFP \/ YAMIL LAGE<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cabrera and his family sowed 25,000 plants for the season that started last October and ends in May.<\/p>\n<p>From it, he expects to get little over 550 kilograms (about 1,200 pounds) of tobacco leaf &#8212; 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So Cabrera and his family will look to the corn and other foods they grow on the side for survival.<\/p>\n<p>Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him, Cabrera lovingly cures the tobacco leaves, once dried, in a special concoction that includes guava leaf, honey and rum mixed into water.<\/p>\n<p>It is a long process, requiring mastery, for which he reaps little financial reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vi\u00f1ales (Cuba) (AFP), Feb 26 &#8211; Yurisniel Cabrera, 35, is a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, eking out a meager living from the leaves used to make Cuba&#8217;s fabled cigars. 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