12 honored for reforestation

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The First Gastronomic Macadamia Festival has honored twelve Dominican companies and institutions for their support for macadamia production, which also helps the country's reforestation. Banco Popular, Supermercados Nacional, Bravo and La Cadena, Mercatodo, Rancho Baiguate, Reposteria Miguelina, La Cuchara de Madera, Melia Santo Domingo and Melia Paradisus hotels, the Dominican Agro-Industrial Council (JAD) and the Progressio Foundation received awards. The macadamia crop helps stabilize mountainous soils, helping the reforestation of large areas, and providing jobs in depressed rural areas. Businessman and civic leader Manuel Arsenio Urena was awarded a plaque that extolled his role as the first businessman to promote and create new forests in the Dominican Republic using the macadamia tree.

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