-DATE- 19901105 -YEAR- 1990 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- Castro Outlines Food Production Goals -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Havana International Service -REPORT_NBR- FBIS-LAT-90-214 -REPORT_DATE- 19901105 -HEADER- BRS Assigned Document Number: 000019052 Report Type: Daily Report AFS Number: PA0511043190 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-90-214 Report Date: 05 Nov 90 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 1 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 1 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 05 Nov 90 Report Volume: Monday Vol VI No 214 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Havana International Service Report Name: Latin America Headline: Castro Outlines Food Production Goals Source Line: PA0511043190 Havana International Service in Spanish 0002 GMT 5 Nov 90 -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] President Fidel Castro said today that serious work is being done in the national food program because of the reorganization of the agricultural sector and the achievements in food production in the short run. Fidel Castro toured several regions in Havana Province on Red Sunday and made statements in El Paraiso camp, Guines Municipality, where Cuban youth leaders are working. 2. The Cuban head of state said that over 30 new villages and some 10,000 houses will be built in the next four of five years in rural areas of Havana province to stop the exodus to the cities and to stem the latest tendency toward bureaucractic procedure in the agricultural sector. Castro said that students have been the soul of agriculture, and he indicated that a permanent force is needed to perform agricultural tasks throughout the year. He said the possibility of paying higher salaries in rural areas than in cities is being studied, in order to encourage the labor force to remain in rural areas and thus, to guarantee large quantity of quality food supply for the population. 3. Fidel Castro said that we are talking about a true revolution in the use of bureaucratic personnel in the agricultural sector, in a country where all available famland farming must be utilized. He also said the consumption habits of the people have to improve. 4. On this subject, Castro stressed the need of learning the advantages of eating bananas, rich in nutrients and vitamins, and he recommended the publication of a book he brought from Ecuador two years ago that explains 400 ways of preparing bananas. 5. In his meeting with the youths in El Paraiso camp, Guines Municipality, Fidel Castro also stressed the participation of Cuban women in the agricultural sector and the efforts of construction workers in creating the infrastructure for the food program. 6. According to preliminary reports from labor centers, 2.3 million Cubans did voluntary work in the 14 provinces of the country on Red Sunday. -END-