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Reforms help Cuban farmers, but many still struggle

Street vendors push their cart filled with produce in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Cuba's socialist government last year approved a package of 63 reforms meant to make it easier and more profitable for producers to get food to consumers. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A farmer plants lettuce seeds at the Vista Hermosa farm in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for Cuban producers to get food to consumers. Farmers say the measures are still not sufficient to overcome obstacles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Workers milk goats at the Vista Hermosa farm in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for Cuban producers to get food to consumers. Farmers say the measures are still not sufficient to overcome obstacles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Farmer Misael Ponce poses for a photo on his Vista Hermosa farm, in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Ponce has 120 hectares (297 acres) dedicated to ranching in addition to a small plant producing cheese and yoghurt he sells to hotels. But he said the new income has been eaten by inflation. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A shepherd herds cows at the Vista Hermosa farm in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for Cuban producers to get food to consumers. Farmers say the measures are still not sufficient to overcome obstacles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Lazaro Sanchez poses for a photo on his farm Jesus Maria, in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for Cuban producers. Sanchez can now sell most of the vegetables he produces himself instead of being forced to sell them to the state at fixed prices, though it still takes a reduced share. He can set up his own roadside stand if he chooses. His power and water bills have been cut. But the measures, say farmers, are still not sufficient to overcome obstacles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Goats are lined up to be milked at the Vista Hermosa farm in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for Cuban producers to get food to consumers. Farmers say the measures are still not sufficient to overcome obstacles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A farmer's shadow is cast on the curtain of a tomato greenhouse at the Vista Hermosa farm in Bacuranao, just east of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for Cuban producers to get food to consumers. Farmers say the measures are still not sufficient to overcome obstacles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Reforms help Cuban farmers, but many still struggle