The Dominican consumers they will have enough pigs and chickens to Christmas and end of the year, according to consulted producers.
In this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture assures that the authorities guarantee the supply pork for Christmas through local production and import permits granted for these purposes.
The president of the Dominican Poultry Association (ADA), José López Deschamps, said that the chickens for december those that may be missing are guaranteed on the farms and in vans. In addition, he indicated that the price is established: at the farm it will not exceed 45 pesos.
chicken production
Lopez added that the poultry sector It has a production of 21.5 million chicken units for December, including close to 3 million frozen units.
On his side, the Director of Communications of the Department of agricultureErick Montilla, informed Free Daily that a swine inventory that the entity carried out a week ago, identified that there are enough fattening pigs to Christmas: more than 160,000 units.
He also specified that the government, through the Price Stabilization Institute (unexpected) and its popular sales have pigs that have been acquired to sell them at affordable prices for the population during those days.
guaranteed pork
Montilla revealed that the large pork producers have already met with the head of the portfolio of Agriculture, Limber Cruzand they guaranteed him enough animals and meat for that date.
Likewise, he informed that the offers that are available through the imports that have been granted are added so that the markets and supermarkets can also have legs and the consumer can have them for the Christmas season.
Instead, Iván García, president of the Dominican Merchant Federation (FDC), explained that December has always been very important for the entire commercial sector, since during this month salary number 13 is awarded and many companies also deliver their bonuses to employees.
“This December we hope it will be a great december since the government announced that, as of day five, they are going to deliver around 25,000 million pesos corresponding to the more than 700,000 employees that the government sector has,” said García.
He said they also expect there to be a significant price reduction Compared to 2021, since the cost of freight dropped from 21,500 to 6,500 dollars from China and from 14,500 to 6,500 from Europe, for which “we hope that this Christmas will be calm.”
He said that the Ministry of Interior and Police and the National Police guaranteed the Dominican Federation of Merchants that there will be more patrols for this time of year.
He indicated that the institutions confirmed that the patrolling will be mixed between the National Police and members of the Armed Forces, to guarantee the mobility of all consumers during this Christmas period and the end of the year holidays.
“We trust that the quadrant system will decrease the criminal acts and we trust that this will be the best Christmas of the last decade,” said the businessman.
small producers
Ambiórix Cabrera, president of the Association of Poultry Producers de Moca y Licey al Medio (Approamoli), assures that in the Dominican Republic there is an overproduction of chicken.
“Here there is chicken that this town will not eat it in 20 Good nightCabrera said.
He said that at 30 years in the chicken production what is happening now has never been given.
“For this date the chicken starts to take off on prices and the price is still below the production costs from the market because the government has gotten together with the big ones, it gives them a subsidy, but the little one got screwed,” said the producer.
He assures that he represents close to 80% of the small and medium producers from the country.
