Bringing Cuban coffee farming back from the brink
 

Interesting article. It seems Cuba is now doing for coffee growing what they've always known best about doing with growing and processing tabaco too. Time to bring more Cuban Coffee home? Cubita is good, but I'd like to try some of these new recipe beans that are "jungle farmed". Terry

https://www.gcrmag.com/bringing-cuba...rom-the-brink/

Always we have put a little money a side when returning to Canada to buy good at the duty free in Cuba. Honey, Rum, tobacco, and coffee too. I keep the rum, give away the honey and coffee and sell the tobacco for profit. I only smoke the small cheap cigars that I buy from Cubans. It’s a big plus if Cuba can up their coffee export to the world.

An interesting article but I am not a coffee drinker. In fact I can't stand the stuff.
I have picked up coffee at the airport in Cuba to bring home and give away before.

Many years ago we did visit a coffee plantation just outside of Santiago de Cuba up in the mountains.
Well, the ruins of an old plantation anyhow...

GRAN PIEDRA - botanical gardens and the ruins of a coffee plantation

Along with rum and honey, coffee is another item that we have brought home from Cuba. You have to know what you are buying though.
I don’t know what the market is for Cuban coffee but I am sure nobody goes without in Cuba at least.

Wessislander, coffee for the majority of Cubans.- REAL coffee - is something that most with no help from anyone on the outside can either find, or if they do find it, they can't afford it. My wife there just bought 3 large bags of Cubita coffee at the supermarket in Camaguey city last weekend... but she has a TD Canada Trust credit card with her name on it in order to make those purchases. For most other Cubans, they drink some type of kinda-sorta coffee that's been cut with peas and/or soy beans and with God knows what else mixed into it too to provide not even a reasonable facsimile of what REAL coffee is supposed to taste like. It's absolute crap! But that's all that they can afford. Many have actually stopped drinking coffee all together... and stopped smoking there too. No money available for either of those things anymore. FOOD is more important. Terry