The Christmas supply is assured in the Dominican Republic, the president stated yesterday Luis Abinaderby ensuring that there are enough chickens, pigs, eggs, potatoes, fruits, milk, rice, bananas, onions, cassava and other basic items, since the country “is planted” and there will be record production.
The president discussed the issue at the meeting LA Weeklytogether with the Ministers of Agriculture, Limber Cruz; the administrator of the Agricultural Bank, Fernando Durán, and the directors of the Economic Kitchens… and that of INESPRE, Iván Hernández Guzmán, where Christmas supplies and the behavior of agricultural production and financing for agricultural producers were discussed.
Regarding the actions that the Government will carry out to keep the population supplied with food in the coming months between these six Christmas fairs that are expected to benefit more than 480 thousand people; plus 95 weekly farmers markets.
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Other actions also include mobile warehouses in more than 400 locations throughout the country with 400 operations to benefit more than 480,00 people.
Edgar A. Feliz Méndezreported that the Economic Kitchens will distribute more than 10 million portions of food in 135 establishments and will be delivered, through community organizations, 400 thousand raw portions with food from the basic basket and Christmas.
They will also deliver 50,000 daily cooked meals and more than 2,500 Christmas dinners and lunches for 500 people per event, and in 300 towns they will install mobile kitchens to distribute Christmas dinners and lunches.
Limber Cruz, Minister of Agriculture, assured that there is great availability of food, including rice, onion, potatoes, cassava, bananas, pork, chicken and eggs, whose production increased between 4% and 239%, in relation to 2021 and 2024.
He added that there is 25 million units of chickens guaranteed.
“A sufficient supply of products is guaranteed, distributed regionally to ensure both profitability for producers and affordable prices for consumers,” said Cruz.
They will also carry out “The Route of Hope” through the Presidency’s Social Plan, which includes the delivery of food rations house to house.
Fernando Durán, administrator of Banco Agrícola, said that this entity increased its credit portfolio from 30,306 million in 2020 to 55,851 million this year and that it has disbursed RD$127,515 million in 110,038 loans granted and RD$22,500 million in fresh resources from the national budget to the different programs.
Terrorism airplane shooting
Yesterday, President Abinader described the shooting of an airline plane by armed gangs as an act of terrorism. Spirit Airlinescoming from Florida, when it approached Port-au-Prince, forcing the pilots to make an “emergency landing” at the Cibao International Airport, in Santiago de los Caballeros.
“That is a terrorist act and if the countries that monitor and help Haiti did not declare those terrorist groups, those gangs, that shoot at a plane with Haitian citizens, or perhaps North Americans or any nationality, people who are going to visit their relatives totally innocent of any situation; “If they don’t declare those gangs terrorists, then I don’t know what they are,” he said.
He said that “we are treating it as a terrorist group; If they come here, they know what is going to happen to them. “They have to declare them terrorist gangs, that’s what they are.”
The ship that was shot seven times is in Santiago under review.
When answering questions, he clarified that Christmas parties in public institutions are not prohibited and only excessive expenses and “exchanges between officials” were prohibited. He stated that this year there will be a big party.
He trusted that relations between the Dominican Republic and the United States will continue to be harmonious when President-elect Donald Trump assumes the presidency of that nation.
He affirmed that the country will continue to deport illegal migrants and that government representatives are discussing the case of labor and expired permits with agricultural producer associations.
