AUGUSTA – Maine Agriculture Commissioner Robert Spear plans to return home this week from a trade mission to Cuba after an infection that sent him to the hospital.

Doctors told Spear that he’ll be released on Tuesday from a hospital in Miami. Spear and his wife, Janet, plan to return home the next day.

Spear was airlifted from Havana to Miami on April 8 after he was stricken by septic shock while leading an agricultural trade mission. He spent several days in intensive care and remained in the hospital to regain his strength.

The Baldacci administration said the trip added two more companies under a $10 million export agreement that was signed in December. The agreement covered exports of Maine apples, potatoes, eggs and maple syrup.

The Maine companies added to the agreement include sardine packer Connors Bumblebee and Robbins Lumber in Searsmont.

Bumblebee has contracted for multiple shipping containers of sardines, and Robbins has contracted for an initial order of 30 shipping containers of pine, spruce, fir and hardwood.

The federal government has lifted an embargo for certain agricultural products to Cuba.