HOLGUIN, Cuba, (Reuters) - More belt-tightening may lie head for Cuba as President Raul Castro said on Sunday the government will look at making its second adjustment to expenditures this year due to the effects of the global financial crisis. He said Cuba needs to press ahead with his programme for getting more land into the hands of private farmers, calling the lone major reform of his administration a top national priority. Castro spoke to thousands of red-clad Cubans in the eastern city of Holguin to mark the anniversary of the July 26, 1953 rebel attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba that is considered the start of the Cuban revolution. The revolution ended Jan 1, 1959 when dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and rebel leader Fidel Castro took power. Raul Castro said Cuban ministers will meet on Tuesday (tomorrow) to consider revising spending plans for the rest of the year because of the effects of the world economic crisis on our economy. In particular, he said there has been a significant reduction in export income and additional restrictions to access external financing sources. A recent government report said imports are expected to plummet 22.2pc, or some $3.4b in 2009, while exports will decline by $500m. Three hurricanes that caused $10b in damage when they struck the island last year have added to woes caused by the global crisis. In response, the cash-short government has taken belt-tightening measures such as scheduled blackouts to save energy, selected factory shutdowns, public transport reductions, spending cuts and the freezing of foreign business bank accounts. The latter has been partially rescinded after the account holders threatened to stop trading with Cuba, which depends heavily on imports of food and many other items. The worsening situation has frustrated many Cubans who hoped Castro would reform Cubas economy after taking over from Castro last year and quickly decreeing that Cubans could buy cell phones and computers and use previously off-limit tourist hotels. But his only major reform so far has been in agriculture, where he launched a program to let private farmers cultivate unused state land. He said of 110,000 applications for land, 82,000 have been granted. More needs to be done to advance the land plan so Cuba can increase food production and cut import costs, he said. It is an issue of national security to produce the products in this country, Castro said. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars, and I dont exaggerate, bringing them from other countries. The land is here, the Cubans are here, lets see if we work or not, if we produce or not, he said, pounding the podium. Castro did not mention US President Barack Obama or the US by name, but referred to damage done by imperialism and the blockade, which is what Cuba calls the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the island.