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Cuba faces deep challenges as it turns fallow land over to farmers

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Canadian Business, Canada: The Cuban government has turned over nearly 1 million hectares of previously state-owned land to individual farmers, but half of it still lies fallow or is underutilized, highlighting the tremendous challenges facing an agricultural reform program that President Raul Castro has trumpeted as key to the island's future.