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Subject: [CubaNews] NYT: Cuba Organic Urban gardens. Pacifica Board Protest**
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Subject: [CubaNews] CUBA: ORGANIC URBAN GARDEN PROJECT PROVIDES
60,000 JOBS
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CUBA: URBAN GARDENS PROVIDE 60,000 JOBS IN FIRST QUARTER OF 2001
Havana, March 5 (RHC)--Some 60,000 people found work during the first
quarter of the year with a new national agricultural program in Cuba.
In an urban gardening project sponsored by the Ministry of
Agriculture, some 3,000 hectares of unused land were converted into
urban gardens in most of the nation's cities, thereby providing tens
of thousands of jobs.
In Granma province alone, which suffers from problems associated
with depopulation, 12,000 jobs were guaranteed by the project.
Cuba's urban garden program was begun in the early 1990s to combat
the serious shortage of food in the cities due to the lack of
petroleum products to transport food in from the countryside. The
gardens sprouted up everywhere -- from schools, to community centers,
to factories to army posts. Such is the success of the program that
more than 50 percent of Havana's fresh produce is grown within city
limits. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides are allowed in the
process.
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