Cuba combines peas and coffee over again in price reduction purpose

The authorities say, Cuba is restarting combining coffee with baked peas in an offer to handle with growing worldwide coffee prices.

The mixed for home use will help reduce expenses, given that coffee price had increased some 69% over the previous year, the statement said.

Cuba requires importing coffee as its own making, in spite of current investment, cannot fulfill domestic demand. Pea-blend was regular in coffee-loving Cuba for many years.

An announcement in the official Communist Party newspaper Granma said production of coffee varied with peas was restarting.

The price of coffee, Granma reported, had mounted from US$1,740 to US$2, 904 per tonne over the last year, in general with various yields. Peas had gone up by some 30% but at US$500 a tonne the price was still far lower the rate of coffee, Granma added. In the meanwhile, coffee shares for children aged up to six are being removed.

The methods mean that the officials will be able to carryon allocating coffee with the sponsored price fixed at 4 pesos (17 US cents) for a 115g (4oz) bag, the declaration said. Cubans, who tend to swallow few cups of extremely sweetened coffee, are utilized to pea-blended coffee.

Havana resident Froilan Valido told AP news agency, it is too much, much bitterer than wholesome coffee that is smoother. But various people here are habituated to it. Cuba utilized to be a larger exporter of coffee, but in current year’s crops have declined short of domestic demand.

Previous month, the chief of the state-run coffee company, Antonio Aleman, said that US$9.5m had been spent over the past five years to revise production.

But he said that Cuba had to import some 12,000 tonnes to fulfill a total demand of 18,000 tonnes. The revisits of pea-blend coffee was indicated last December when Cuban President Raul Castro pointed out that Cuba could not paid to keep expenditure US$50m to import coffee and allocating portios to all Cubans apart from of age.

If we desire to continue on drinking pure, un-portioned coffee, the only way out is to create it in Cuba, where it has been confirmed that all the compulsory conditions for its farming subsist" he said.