With the arrival today of the Royal Flight airline flight from Moscow, which restarted operations through the Juan G. Gomez International Airport, the Russian market shows its preference for Cuba's largest sun and beach resort despite the global pandemic.

Cuba and Slovakia agreed to further boost bilateral economic and commercial relations particularly in priority areas for both nations.

Cuba has increased its production capacity of domestic sanitizing and antibacterial alcohol gel, with the aim of helping to protect the population against COVID-19.

The U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba causes significant losses in the transport system. In the March 2019-May 2020 period alone, the sector suffered damages worth USD 312,027, 430.

The Cuban government decided to reduce the rates for the payment of water and electricity services for Cuban agricultural producers, retroactively as of January 2021, with the aim of contributing to the reduction of costs in food production
Meisi Bolaños Weiss, Minister of Finance and Prices, explained this measure is included within the transformations assumed immediately by the country's leadership to also stimulate compliance with delivery and contracting plans, in a context of adverse conditions imposed by the COVID-19.

Diorgys Hernández Díaz, general director of Industrial Policy of the Ministry of Food Industry (MINAL), reported that the first non-commercial productions in the process of starting up the production lines of Nescor S.A. were already carried out.

Meisi Bolaños Weiss, Minister of Finance and Prices of Cuba, announced that rates for services to farmers were reduced, as well as taxes on income while banks will increase loans and other instruments to boost food production.

The U.S. blockade against Cuba has severely affected the domestic trade system of the Caribbean nation, one more evidence of its constant extraterritorial violations against the normal development of the country.

The number of farming cooperatives and individual producers in Camaguey province has increased to 18, with a more advanced situation in the process of certification of areas by Plant Health for their incorporation to the import and export of products.

Cuba presented its export offer of goods and services for the Mexican market during a business seminar held Monday.

The production of spare parts and the extension of the useful life of equipment in Cuban factories and industries by members of the Association of Innovators and Rationalizers ( ANIR), allowed this entity to save the country more than 400 million pesos in 2020.

Farmers in the province of Cienfuegos are applying alternatives to improve crop yields due to the lack of fertilizers, motivated by the tightening of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and also by the global economic contraction after a year of COVID-19.
Yoan Sarduy, delegate of agriculture in Cienfuegos, told the press that there were deficits of inputs in this cold season that ended in February this year, and whose consequences will be seen in the low yields of the different crops.

The impossibility of purchasing antivirals for the hepatitis C patients such as Zepatier and Combo Abbie, patented by the U.S. pharmaceutical laboratory Gileat, is one of the effects of the blockade of Cuba in the Havana Institute of Gastroenterology.

Cuba already has 17 productive poles throughout the country with export potential, according to Vivian Herrera, general director of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), in her Twitter profile.