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Cuba Idles Tractors Due to Fuel Shortage

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<i> Reuters</i>

Cuba’s Agriculture Ministry has stopped using 10,000 tractors at livestock and forestry farms around the island because of a shortage of fuel, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said Friday.

It was the latest step in a nationwide energy-saving campaign by the Communist government triggered by serious disruptions to supplies of oil from the Soviet Union. Granma said the tractors are being replaced by horse-drawn carts or yokes of oxen.

The newspaper said the drastic cutback in the use of fuel-powered vehicles does not apply to sugar cane, Cuba’s main export crop.

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