(a) Domestic availability of soya beans

Oil sources include soya, sunflower, jatropha, groundnut, cotton, canola and a number of others.

Other agreements include a project in which Brazil s state energy company, Petrobrás, and Cuba s Cupet will extract oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and another that involves technological aid from the Brazilian Company Pessquisa Agropecuária for the development of soya production in Cuba.