Havana, Cuba.- Cuban agricultural-food field currently includes 104 business opportunities, including the processing of pork meat and vegetables, said sources today at the Fiagrop 2018 fair, which is held in this capital city.

Yoan Manuel Curbelo and Susana Enrique, from the Center for the Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba (Procuba), also told the media that 20 countries have businesses with Cuba in this field, the second in the country with greater number of associations with foreign capital.

‘The agricultural-food field has great interest among foreign investors, as it triggers alliances with other sectors, particularly tourism,’ they said.

They mentioned, as ways to establish businesses, the joint ventures with hundred percent of foreign capital and any other form of association.

There are currently various projects under negotiation, some of them linked to the industrial processing of pork, fruits and vegetables, coffee and other products.

First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Julio Andres Garcia visited today the five facilities of the fair, which included, among other activities, workshops on the experiences of the cooperative and farmer sector to handle climate change and the development in Cuba of stations to produce proteins for feeding animals.

The 21st Fiagrop 2018, is held at the Rancho Boyeros exhibition center in Havana, and includes some 60 technical lectures on the varied stages of animal production.

Representatives from more than 20 foreign companies and 205 Cuban exhibitors participate in this event.