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09-13-2006, 08:30 PM
A combined effort by the Institute for Biotechnology and Industrial Innovation (IBII), the Special Program for Guaranteed Food, part of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the Neyba Bloc of Organizations (BONE) has resulted in a program for producing and processing prickly pears, which grow in some of the Dominican Republic's driest regions, such as Neyba and the northwest. The information appears in today's Hoy. Bernarda Sastillo, the director of IBII said that the institute now has the protocols, recipes and production information for processing prickly pears. A demonstration farm is currently under way. The succulent can be used to make a flour substitute in cakes and bread, as a fruit preserve, as well as for shampoo, soap and non-alcoholic beverages.
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