Ante el alza creciente de los precios de los productos agropecuarios, al Estado le corresponde rectificar las fallas del mercado, sin dejar de lado el estudio de la cadena productiva de valor y sus diferentes eslabones, la valoración de costos y ganancias y el análisis de las barreras que dificultad el proceso productivo en un sector estratégico como el de la agricultura.
Planning and the market are a relevant subject in the current context of economic transformations which the Cuban economy is undergoing. Despite it being a controversial subject, it has lacked debate. However, where it has most been dealt with and discussed, though insufficiently, is in the academic sphere. There have been times in which an identity between market and capitalism has been established. Apparently, at least there are three rather disseminated lines of thinking about planning and market: the one that attributes the fundamental role to planning and does not recognise the existence of the market and its function; a second one that gives the fundamental role to the market and ignores that of planning; and, lastly, the one that presents the establishment of an objective relationship between the role of planning and the market.1 Some questions could perhaps channel
La economía cubana se encuentra enfrascada en un interesante proceso de transformaciones económicas que, a la vez, incide en lo social y político, y requiere de la fundamentación y conceptualización de su propio modelo económico. En este proceso resulta significativo abordar la importancia y necesidad de la complementariedad entre la planificación y el mercado.
