A farmer plows the land with two oxen in Caimito March 28, 2014. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Banos
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba opened its first wholesale market for farmers in decades on Sunday, an experiment limited to agricultural supplies in one area and the latest market-oriented reform for the communist-run island.
While Cuba has allowed nearly 500,000 small business owners and their employees to operate privately and hundreds of thousands of farmers to grow their own crops, it has been slow to give them access to wholesale markets.
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