Cuba Idles Tractors Due to Fuel Shortage
HAVANA — Cuba’s Agriculture Ministry has stopped using 10,000 tractors at livestock and forestry farms around the island because of a shortage of fuel, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said Friday.
It was the latest step in a nationwide energy-saving campaign by the Communist government triggered by serious disruptions to supplies of oil from the Soviet Union. Granma said the tractors are being replaced by horse-drawn carts or yokes of oxen.
The newspaper said the drastic cutback in the use of fuel-powered vehicles does not apply to sugar cane, Cuba’s main export crop.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
