HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 11 (ACN) A total of 33 million pesos will be incorporated to the subsidy assumed by the State budget for medicines for the population, in this case for the payment of 37 drugs categorized as complementary.

Havana, feb 10 (ACN) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Wednesday that the ongoing monetary and financial reforms plus the expansion of the private sector will help improve the island´s economy, currently depressed due to the impact of the US blockade and the COVID 19 pandemic.

Veterinary attention to pets, as part of self-employment, is allowed in Cuba, announced Alejandro Gil Fernandez, deputy prime minister and head of Economy and Planning, referring to an issue that has been of news relevance in recent days since the announcement of new measures for the improvement of self-employment in the country.

 With the purpose of speeding up bureaucratic procedures and processes, the Council of Ministers recently approved a the one-stop shop, a new tool for self-employed workers to carry out all their legal procedures.

The president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce Antonio Carricarte held an online meeting Tuesday with his Venezuelan counterpart Pilar Gonzalez to draw up working guidelines aimed at fostering bilateral links.

Cuban Economy minister Alejandro Gil said on Tuesday that self-employment can now operate in over 2 thousand activities, an action expanding the 127 activities previously allowed for the non-state economic initiative.

Despite the existence of COVID-19, which hinders greater trade, the Ceballos Agroindustrial Enterprise, in Ciego de Avila, assured in 2020 productions that replaced imports for an amount of about 753,000 US dollars.

 Two months after it began, the sugar cane harvest in Cuba has maintained 15 sugar mills producing more sugar so far compared to their yields in the previous campaign.

The Artistic and Literary Promotions Company of Cuba ( Artex) will provide the export service to the Non-State Management Forms, as a link between the non-state entity and the future client.

During the last year, Cuba has identified 15 agricultural production centers ready to export their own productions, four of them have companies authorized to carry out activities aimed at the international market.

The increase in the capacity of the 30 de Noviembre power plant in San Cristobal, among other works related to sugar production, will guarantee the operation of Cuba's second bioelectric power plant, to be built in areas of this industry in Artemisa.
Biolelectricity is a technology that generates clean electric energy from biomass such as bagasse, crop waste, rice straw or wood.

Cuban Economy minister Alejandro Gil described as very important the current increase registered in the number of job applications in the country’s productive sector.

By the end of this year it is expected to achieve the production of the necessary doses of the Porvac vaccine to immunize the entire Cuban swine mass against classical swine fever and begin exports of the drug.

Resolutions related to prices in cafeterias, the Family Assistance System (SAF by its Spanish acronym), workers' canteens and state-run parking lots were adopted by the Government of Havana, within the framework of the monetary ordering.