PINAR DEL RIO, February 20 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI) - The local chicken farm closed last year and residents of Mantua, a medium-sized town here have only been able to obtain three eggs so far this year through the government’s rationing system.

When the farm originally closed last year, officials said it was because there was no way to transport the chickens. By the end of the year, the official line had changed: there were no chickens to fill the empty henhouses. There have been other explanations as well; there is no feed, the cost of producing an egg is not economically justifiable.

Residents, who would like to be able to buy an occasional egg, are wondering where all the chickens went.

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