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HAVANA Cheap Giants Hoodies , April 24 (Xinhua) -- Not far from Havana's iconic Revolution Square, a green plot of land offers a welcome break from the uniform skyline and hubbub of Cuba's capital.
More importantly, it guarantees an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round.
This urban farm, like numerous others like it, grows leafy greens, such as cabbage, lettuce, chard and occasionally arugula, ensuring fresh vegetables feature on local dinner tables.
Thanks to a government program begun three decades ago, urban farms today produce more than a million tons of organic crops.
The program, which has spread across the country and is present in almost all major cities, was strengthened in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, then Cuba's main political and economic ally.
""The product practically goes from the plot to our plates,"" said retiree Francisca Lopez, 70, who ""at least once a week"" visits the urban farm near her house in a populous Havana neighborhood.
It is a good source of vegetables to complement the typical Cuban dish of rice, beans and pork, she said.
By 2020, government plans to invest more than 96 million U.S. dollars -- 80 percent from international financing -- to expand urban farms, according to Nelson Campanioni, the program's executive director.
""The investment will be earmarked to develop irrigation, seed production, organic fertilizers, agro-ecological management and use of renewable energy, among other aspects,"" Campanioni recently told a congress of urban, suburban and family agriculture in Havana.
Increasing and diversifying food production in Cuba is a challenge, due to changing climatic conditions, such as severe drought, which currently affects the island, he said.
As part of the program, locals will receive training ""to produce organic vegetables and fruits,"" including local production of seeds, organic fertilizers, farm implements, biocontrol and other factors.
Director of development for Cuba's Agricultural Business Group, Alina Beltran, said the program has in the past year produced 70 percent of the lettuce seeds it needs, 80 percent of the Chinese cabbage seeds and 40 percent of radish seeds.
The program also teaches young children how to plant and harvest vegetables, herbs and fruits.
By 2019, officials expect to produce around 1.2 million tons of organic fruits and vegetables at 10,000 hectares of urban farms throughout Cuba.
Agricultural production is a priority of the national push to modernize the economic and productive system, with the goal of producing up to 60 percent of the country's food needs.
Cuba currently spends some 2 billion U.S. dollars a year on imported food products, according to government officials.
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ISTANBUL, May 4 (Xinhua) -- As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to the United States nears, the chances are almost nil for him to talk Washington into withdrawing its support to the Kurdish militia in Syria, which Ankara fears has territorial ambitions, analysts say.
""(Donald) Trump is unlikely to budge on the issue,"" Faruk Logoglu, a former diplomat who held top posts in the Turkish Foreign Ministry, told Xinhua, referring to the U.S. president.
Erdogan is scheduled to meet with Trump on May 16, the first face-to-face encounter between them.
Just weeks before the meeting, Turkish jets hit Kurdish militia positions inside Syria and Iraq, sparking criticism and concern from both the U.S. and Russia, which called the strike unacceptable.
Ankara stands zero chance of dissuading Trump from continuing military support to the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Haldun Solmazturk, chairman of Incek debates with the 21st Century Turkey Institute think tank, told Xinhua.
Noting Washington is so deeply engaged in establishing a Kurdish region, Solmazturk added, ""A Kurdish state in the Middle East serves the U.S. interests.""
Turkey is concerned that the emergence of an autonomous Kurdish region in its southern neighbor may later evolve into a state ruled by Kurdish militia seen by Ankara as simply a Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency against Turkey for over 30 years.
Turkish jets dealt early last week a heavy strike against YPG positions in northeastern Syria and PKK positions in northern Iraq. According to the Turkish military, a total of around 70 militants, with about 30 from the YPG, were killed or wounded in the attacks.
Following the strike, U.S. armored vehicles and troops were seen patrolling parts of the YPG-controlled area on the Turkish border. Russian troops in YPG's Afrin canton in northwestern Syria followed suit, according to press reports.
The U.S. and Russian moves are widely seen as a step aimed at deterring further Turkish action against the YPG.
Ankara said, however, it will take further action against the YPG when necessary, voicing frustration about the U.S. siding with the Kurdish militia.
Erdogan vowed that Turkey will never allow the emergence of a YPG state in Syria.
The U.S. sees the YPG as a reliable ground force in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, and hundreds of U.S. special forces have long been training the Kurdish fighters.
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