Cacao exports increase

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Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez explains that in the last three years the production and export of cacao has increased by 89%. The revenue from cacao exports has also increased by 101%, going from US$44.5 million to US$90 million annually. The DR is now the ninth largest cacao producer in the world and the third in the region. As far as exports are concerned, the DR is second in the Americas and sixth in the world. The government has been instrumental in this increase, giving producers US$39 million in funds and has supported rehabilitation projects and plantation renovation programs.

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