PINAR DEL RÍO, May 8 (José Hidalgo Gato, Lux InfoPress) - Cattle raising in the province has not been economically viable for some years now, said Rogelio Iglesias, under-Secretary of Agriculture for the Livestock sector, and only 13 of 46 Basic Units for Cooperative Production achieved a small profit last year.

According to Iglesias, the price of meat rose 100 percent and that of a liter of milk went from 47 cents to more than one peso, so overall loses amount to 870,000 pesos. Among the causes he cited the aging of the existing livestock, the lack of feed, which has caused cattle to revert to grazing, and the theft and illegal slaughter of cattle.

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