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05-01-2008, 03:00 PM
With barely two weeks to go before the 16 May election, the government has announced subsidies worth RD$110 million per month for the poultry sector. Angel Faxas, director of the Livestock Department, said that this was the equivalent of paying poultry farms RD$2 for each pound of chicken produced. Faxas made the announcement as he handed dairy producers RD$74 million in subsidies, equal to RD$3 per liter of milk produced. Since December dairy producers have received RD$262 million in subsidies from the government. The hope is that chicken prices will level out at RD$20 per pound of chicken.
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