Cuba’s Sugar Industry Hit by Low Productivity

Production at Cuba’s sugar plants has been hit hard this year by inefficiency, a spate of breakdowns and other technical problems, state-media has reported, adding to sobering news for the Communist-run island’s crisis-addled economy, reports BusinessWeek.

Breakdowns and other interruptions have idled plants nearly 19 percent of the time so far in 2010, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said. A further 11 percent of production reportedly has been lost due to a lack of sugar cane.

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