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01-31-2007, 04:40 PM
After the latest Government Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace, Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez announced a new massive government-backed program to sow 1.6 million tareas (100,000 hectares) of basic food crops during the first quarter of 2007. The minister said that the government would pour RD$125 million into the project to guarantee a solid supply of foodstuffs at reasonable prices. According to El Caribe, central government will allocate an additional RD$350 million to the nation's rice crop, and extend it to the pre-harvest crop mortgage programs on rice, garlic and beans. Going even further, the minister said that an additional RD$50 million would be spent on improving rural access roads to farmlands. The 17 basic crops to be bolstered by the plan include plantain, cassava (yuca), sweet potato, malanga (yautia), potatoes, garlic, onions, eggplant, christophine (tayota), carrots, peppers, and beets. The government will accept milk mortgages for the first time.
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