REFORMING CUBAN AGRICULTURE

This article focuses on the two major reforms undertaken in the Cuban agricultural sector during 1993 and 1994: the re-organization of the s tate farm sector into worker-managed production co-operatives and the opening of free agricultural markets for above-plan production. Tt is argued that the Cuban agricultural sector is now characterized by mult iple forms of organization oi production and land tenure or a 'mixed e conomy', and that the two reforms have produced a turn-around in agric ultural performance. Still, the macro-economic impact is likely to dep end on a deepening of the reforms in two directions: the development o f a free market in agricultural inputs and a reform of the food ration ing system.