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Havana - Moving to reduce dependence on costly food imports, President Raul Castro has authorised putting vacant farmland in private hands, communist Cuba's state media reported on Friday.
"The maximum to be handed over to individuals who do not hold land is 13.42 hectares, and for those who hold lands, as owners or designated workers, the amount can rise as high as 40.26 ha," it said.
It is the reform with the greatest potential economic impact to be unveiled since Castro, 77, took Cuba's helm in February from his ailing brother Fidel, 81, who founded the communist regime in 1959.
- AFP
