Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 48: February 28, 1944
Corn is one of Cuba’s most important crops, surpassed in importance only by sugar, and the acreage about the same as that planted in bananas. Host of the crop is ground and utilized for human consumption in the form of corn meal. Corn ranking with wheat as a staple food in Cuba. Relatively low prices on livestock products discourage any extensive use as feed. The corn produced is of the yellow flint type and is grown during all seasons of the year. The main crop, however, representing about 75 percent of the total, is produced during the summer rainy season. Plantings of the main crop are made from April to June and the harvest extends from August to October, after which it must be dried. Shelled, bagged, and fumigated before being available for export.
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