NewsWhore
04-16-2008, 02:41 PM
The Ministry of Agriculture has begun paying RD$81 million to Dominican poultry farmers as part of a program to stabilize production since the Haitian embargo began at the beginning of the year. The money is being distributed through the Banco de Reservas, which is notifying farmers who are eligible for the payments. The Unipollo company was one of the first to be notified. Because of the embargo, the government purchased 2.5 million processed chickens and 900,000 laying hens in order to keep the sector from collapsing.
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