The increase in food prices took years

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The rector of the Higher Agricultural Institute (ISA), located in La Herradura, Santiago, told Hoy reporter Jose Alfredo Espinal that the current prices of basic foodstuffs in the Dominican Republic is the result of a process that has developed over several years. Benito Ferreiras, the rector of the institute, said that the current crisis is the result of years of relegating the agricultural sector to the back burner and government attempts to even out the participation of the different sectors in the economy. Ferreiras said that while other countries have changed one important sector of the economy for another, in the Dominican Republic the government has placed tourism, finance and industrial free zones ahead of agriculture, and we are now paying the price. He called for government action to guarantee the country's food supply through policies that support farmers. He criticized the current emphasis on producing bio-fuel on lands that formerly produced foodstuffs for human consumption.

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