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Cuba provides opportunity for Indiana agriculture

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An Indiana farmer says Cuba is a potential bright spot for US agricultural exports.

During his recent trip to the country, Indiana farmer and Indiana Farm Bureau president Don Villwock says he asked a member of the Cuban Embassy where the country needed the most help.  “He said eggs – and that set off a lot of great ideas and thoughts for me,” he says.  “Indiana is the third largest egg state and we could furnish that market very, very easily.”

Villwock tells Brownfield another area where Cuba needs assistance is in increasing agricultural productivity.  “Yields suffer because they don’t have the best available genetics in the world today,” he says.  “We need to do that in right way – and we need to do it in a win-win way for everybody.”

He says that means working with the Cuban agriculture industry to meet the country’s agricultural needs on their timeline.

Villwock was part of a delegation of agriculture industry representatives from Indiana and Michigan that visited Cuba.

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