<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.27 - 13:44:19 /
[email protected]. CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.- Cuba has started to export a species of chili pepper (Capsicum chinense), after selling to Canada the first 27 tons of the crop this year. Chili peppers are an underestimated crop in the Cuban diet and had nearly vanished from the country’s fields until an agricultural enterprise in the municipality of Abreu, Cienfuegos, started growing the crop in cultivation houses covering a total area of barely 4.70 acres. The enterprise, named La Horquita, currently harvests an average of five kilograms per plant in a month, but is looking to boost production after planting ten of its 36 cultivation houses with red and yellow chilli peppers.
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