NewsWhore
01-28-2008, 04:40 PM
Faced with the import ban from Haiti, Dominican poultry farmers are asking the government to help them export their meat and eggs to places like Venezuela and Cuba. The Poultry Producers Association of Moca and Licey al Medio has asked the government to purchase 20 million chickens and ten million eggs at cost price. According to the association's president, Ambioriz Cabrera, these products could be used by the government in their school breakfast programs or any of the many social programs run by government agencies. Cabrera said that the price would be RD$20 per pound for poultry and RD$0.90 for each egg. All told, Cabrera said that they were only talking about some RD$40 million. According to the association, about 20% of the country's small-scale poultry farmers have gone under as a result of the boycott of Dominican products by the Haitian government.
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