New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- With Cuba facing a severe food security crisis, Cuban Ambassador to India Juan Carlos Marsan Aguilera has proposed joint food production in Cuba, under which the country would provide land for Indian companies to grow rice, beans and sugarcane, with the produce also exported to other markets.

Cubans are bearing the consequences of the US tightening its blockade of the country, Aguilera said in an interview, adding that oil supplies from Venezuela and Mexico have stopped, with no other country able to sell to Cuba. He said that while the infant mortality rate in Cuba before the US sanctions was 4 per 100 new births, it has exponentially increased to 10 per 100 new births, with people dying in the absence of proper med...