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Cuba to Free Fixed Prices for Farmers: Cuba, seeking to ease food shortages, Wednesday announced details of a plan that frees farmers from the obligation to sell all produce to the state at fixed prices. According to a government decree, starting next month, all producers, from small private farmers through cooperatives to state farms and including workplaces with small “self-sufficiency” gardens and individuals with private vegetable plots, would be able to sell directly to the public after fulfilling quotas agreed upon with the state. Prices would be freely agreed between buyers and sellers, the decree said.