Report Scenarios Knowledge Base Events Sources Ministerio de la Agricultura de Cuba Type government Country Cuba Homepage Description Cuban central state body responsible for proposing, directing, executing and controlling agricultural, livestock and forestry policy. Suspicion label: none. Aliases MINAG Minag Ministerio de la Agricultura Related claims (5) The ministry describes a procedure for requesting usufruct delivery of idle state land under Decree-Law No. 358 of 2018, for both natural and legal persons. The ministry says Cuba considers food sovereignty and food security a national security issue and has a Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Plan and a law that includes participation of all sectors of the economy and society. The ministry says its public functions include state direction of agricultural production, land tenure and use, soil, plant health, animal health, animal genetics, livestock registry, mechanization, irrigation and drainage, forestry, seeds, cooperative development, commercialization, and urban, suburban and family agriculture. The ministry says it has the central body, 6 attached entities, a delegation in each province, and presence in 161 of Cuba's 168 municipalities. The Ministry of Agriculture of Cuba is the central state administration body in charge of proposing, and once approved directing, executing and controlling state policies on land use and tenure and agricultural and forestry production.