In the absence of an increase in agricultural production, and in the midst of unprecedented shortages and inflation, more rice donated by Vietnam will arrive in Cuba. If in May the Asian country shipped 5,000 tonsthis time it will be 2,000 tons, whose first load left the port of Hai Phong on June 27 and the second will do so this Wednesday.
Although the cargoes will not arrive at the port of Mariel until September, both parties staged a “symbolic delivery” on Tuesday in the city of Hanoi, collected by the official Cuban press.
The donation, says a note in Cubadebate, it is a “gift from the Party, government and people of the capital Hanoi to the Party, Government and people of Cuba to support the work of guaranteeing social security.”
Cuban and Vietnamese officials have mobilized, the text assures, to “verify and strictly control the quality of the rice” exported
The Cuban and Vietnamese officials have been mobilized, the text assures, to “verify and strictly control the quality of the rice” exported. Complaints from the citizens of the Island against this Asian variety are frequent, which, compared to other imported ones such as the one from Uruguay, describe it as like “mud” that “smells bad”.
At the event, the deputy director of the Finance Department of Hanoi, Mai Cong Quyen, assured that from the Vietnamese city “they always closely follow the socioeconomic situation of Cuba and Havana,” especially “food security.”
Rice, a basic food on Cuban tables, is one of the products whose price has skyrocketedreaching 250 pesos per pound in some markets.
At a Trade and Investment Promotion Forum held last May in Ho Chi Minh City, both countries expressed that “they still have many spaces to promote trade and investment cooperation, especially in the fields of agriculture and food processing.” .
Rice, a staple food on Cuban tables, is one of the products whose price has skyrocketed the most, reaching 250 pesos per pound in some markets.
The vice president of the municipal People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc said then that Vietnam and Cuba “although they are geographically distant, they have similarities in the process of construction and national defense, aspiration and revolutionary ideal.”
On that occasion, the Cuban Vice Minister of Agriculture, Maury Hechavarría, said that the island “wants to strengthen collaboration with Vietnam” in areas where this country has “strengths”, such as the production of rice and coffee, as well as “coordinate in the diversification of machinery for agricultural production”.
None of the parties mentions, however, the joint project of La Sierpe, in Sancti Spíritus, abandoned in the middle of last year by the Vietnamese for the lack of compliance by the Cubans.
In any case, both nations continue to sign collaboration agreements, as it happened in april, when they signed four cooperation agreements on civil aviation, electric power, oil and construction. “Today, Vietnam has become our second trading partner and the main investor of capital in the Asian region,” Cuban Vice Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas said at the time.
just a few days ago, two official economists they rightly put Vietnam, along with China, as an example of “socialism that thrives.”
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