The rise and fall of Cuban sugar

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The rise and fall of Cuban sugar

• Brian Pollitt, University of Glasgow

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2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007Exports Minus Imports
-562.7 -245.3 279.7 1,140.3
125.7 1,585.3Exports
3,872.0 4,649.9 6,120.8
8,962.9 9,869.7 11,917.9Goods
1,522.4 1,805.3
2,486.4 2,412.4 3,203.3
3,966.lServices
2,349.6 2,844.6 3,634.4 6,550.5
6,667.4 7,951.6 Imports
4,434.7 4,895.2 5,841.1
7,822.6 9,744.0 10,332.6Goods
4,268.9 4,707.9
5,632.2 7,647.3 9,532.6
10,117.6Services
165.8 187.3 208.9 175.3
211.4 215.0Source Anuario
Estadístico de Cuba, 2008, 5.16.
TABLE 1External Balance of Payments For Goods
and Services Million Pesos at Constant Prices,
2002-2007
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TABLE 2 Harvested Area, Production and Yield of
Sugar Cane and Industrial Sugar Production,
2001/02-2006-07 Season Harvested Area
Cane Production Yield per Sugar
Produced (000 hectares)
(million tonnes) hectare (000
tonnes) 2001-02 1,041.2
34.7 33.3
3,501.1 2002-03 643.8
22.1 34.3
2,141.2 2003-04
661.0 23.8
36.0 2,486.2 2004-05
517.2 11.6
22.4
1,295.2 2005-06 397.1
11.1 28.0
1,160.6 2006-07 329.5
12.0
36.1 1,205.4 Source Anuario
Estadístico de Cuba, 2008, 9.4 and 11.3.
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Crop 2002
2003 2004 2005 2006
2007Potatoes
3.3 3.0 3.3
3.1 2.9 1.4Sweet
Potatoes 3.9 5.0
4.9 4.5 3.0
4.1 Malanga 1.2
2.1 2.4 2.3
1.8 2.1Plantains
7.3 11.1 12.2
7.7 8.7
9.9Rice 6.9
7.1 4.9 3.7
4.3 4.4 Maize
3.1 3.6
4.0 3.6 3.1
3.7Beans
1.1 1.3 1.3
1.1 0.7 1.0Tobacco
3.4 2.6
3.2 2.6 3.0
2.6Citric Fruits 4.8
7.9 8.0 5.5
3.7 4.7Other Fruit
7.2 8.1
9.1 8.2 7.5
7.8Source Anuario Estadístico de Cuba, 2008,
9.9.
TABLE 3Production of Selected Agricultural
Crops, 2002-2007 000 Tonnes
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TABLE 4 Average Value of Exports of Sugar,
Agricultural Products and Fishing, 2001-2003 to
2004-2006 Million Pesos
2001-2003 2004-2006
Change Sugar Industry Products
429.0 213.2
-51. Tobacco
192.2 226.5
17.8 Fishing
81.4
75.2 -7.6 Agricultural
Products 32.7
21.5 -34.3
Total
735.3 536.4
-26.l
TABLE 5 Average Value of Food and Livestock
Imports, 2001-2003 to 2004-2006 Million Pesos

2001-2003 2004-2006
Change Food and Livestock
789.5 1,202.7
52.3 Sources Anuario Estadístico
de Cuba, 2008, 8.8 and 8.11.