Sugar and rice will be available wholesale for benefit of self-employed food vendors
- Submitted by: manso
- Business and Economy
- 02 / 14 / 2011
Sugar and rice will be available for wholesale distribution at Cuba's so-called "parallel markets," Radio Rebelde announced Sunday. The large-scale sale of these products is intended to benefit self-employed food producers and servers.
According to the government's Official Gazette, white sugar will be sold for 8 pesos per pound, brown sugar for 6. Rice is priced at 5 pesos per pound.
One Cuban peso (CUP) is worth 4 cents of a dollar. "Parallel markets" are stores that sell comestibles at prices not subsidized by the ration-card system.
Also on Sunday, the Ministry of Basic Industry announced that salt seasoned with onion, garlic or celery will eventually be made available to the Cuban population. A ministry spokeswoman told Radio Rebelde that "at present only a small amount is available at hard-currency stores, due to the high cost of an ingredient that is purchased on the international market."
Source:miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/02/
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