Cuba eyes soy beans for vacant sugar lands

HAVANA, May 6 (Reuters) - Cuba has begun soy bean production on 5,000
hectares of land formally dedicated to sugar cane, official radio
reported on Tuesday, the first such effort to grow soy on the Caribbean
island.

Radio Progreso, reporting on a meeting of sugar ministry officials in
western Matanzas province, said Sugar Minister Ulises Rosales del Toro
"talked about the singular project in Cuba to gow soy on 5,000 hectares
in Matanzas," without providing further details.

Cuba has studied the possibility of ...