Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest</strong></p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DW</span></a><br>Andreas Knobloch <br>Los Palacios<br>07/30/2025</p><p><em><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a> has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Vietnamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnamese</span></a> investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?</em> </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Under efforts to spur the domestic <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/rice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rice</span></a> output, the Cuban government has asked <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> for help because the two countries have maintained friendly relations for decades, intensifying especially agricultuiral cooperation in recent years.</p><p>For Perez, the Los Palacios project marks a entirely new level of partnership though.</p><p>Privately owned Agri VMA is managing the lease largely independent from state interference, with operations being based on a business contract. The company has brought to Cuba its own resources, technical experts, and seeds from hybrid rice varieties developed in Vietnam.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-land-lease-to-vietnamese-company-reaps-rich-harvest/a-73455248" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/cuba-land-lease-to-v</span><span class="invisible">ietnamese-company-reaps-rich-harvest/a-73455248</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/cuba" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cuba</span></a></span> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cubainfo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cubainfo</span></a></span></p>