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Government seeks new markets for poultry
Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose del Castillo Savinon has announced that the Medina administration is helping producers to find new markets after Haiti banned poultry, meat and egg imports. He said 60,000 pounds of chicken would be exported to Venezuela, as part of payment for the PetroCaribe agreement.
Nevertheless, Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso is optimistic that the ban imposed by Haiti on poultry and egg sales will not affect bilateral relations because it is a circumstantial situation that will soon be overcome. "We expect them to meet the commitment to lift the ban. I can tell you, also, that on a personal level relations between Presidents Danilo Medina and Michel Martelly are excellent," as reported in El Dia.
According to reports, however, the Haitian cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met yesterday, Thursday 12 June and did not respond favorably to the request to revoke the ban.
Meanwhile, the Dominican Association of Poultry Producers says that the price of an egg in Haitian supermarkets increased from RD$10 to RD$17 after the ban. Association spokesman Miguel Lajara said that markets are now supplied with eggs imported from the United States.
A high-level Dominican delegation traveled to Haiti on Wednesday, 12 June for talks for the lifting of the ban. The delegation members included Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose del Castillo Savinon, director of CEI-RD Jean Alain Rodriguez, Minister of Agriculture Luis Ramon Rodriguez and Minister of Public Health Freddy Hidalgo. In an editorial today, Friday 14 June Diario Libre points out that no one from the Ministry of Foreign Relations was in the delegation.
The Haitian government announced its decision was based on the presence of avian flu in the Dominican Republic, but the Pan-American Health Organization clarified that while there is human influenza, there is neither avian nor swine flu in the Dominican Republic.
The ban was announced shortly after President Danilo Medina's meeting with President Michel Martelly in Haiti on the occasion of Environment Day, June 5. At the event, President Medina announced Dominican support for the reforestation of Haiti.
Poultry producers say that every week the border is closed to poultry exports costs producers have to find alternative markets for 4.9 million eggs, 750,000 lbs of poultry and one million pounds of salami, worth around RD$68.4 million.
En sala de espera decisi?n Hait? sobre veda - DiarioLibre.com
Gobierno eval?a buscar nuevos mercados? para exportar pollos - ElDia.com.do
Da?o a la imagen del pa?s - DiarioLibre.com
El Caribe ? Ministros haitianos ratifican rechazo a pollos y huevos de RD
Haiti - Health : The Dominican Republic awaiting the decision of the Government of Haiti - HaitiLibre.com, Haiti News, The haitian people's voice
How come the chickens and eggs are not "on sale" here in the DR>
Government seeks new markets for poultry
Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose del Castillo Savinon has announced that the Medina administration is helping producers to find new markets after Haiti banned poultry, meat and egg imports. He said 60,000 pounds of chicken would be exported to Venezuela, as part of payment for the PetroCaribe agreement.
Nevertheless, Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso is optimistic that the ban imposed by Haiti on poultry and egg sales will not affect bilateral relations because it is a circumstantial situation that will soon be overcome. "We expect them to meet the commitment to lift the ban. I can tell you, also, that on a personal level relations between Presidents Danilo Medina and Michel Martelly are excellent," as reported in El Dia.
According to reports, however, the Haitian cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met yesterday, Thursday 12 June and did not respond favorably to the request to revoke the ban.
Meanwhile, the Dominican Association of Poultry Producers says that the price of an egg in Haitian supermarkets increased from RD$10 to RD$17 after the ban. Association spokesman Miguel Lajara said that markets are now supplied with eggs imported from the United States.
A high-level Dominican delegation traveled to Haiti on Wednesday, 12 June for talks for the lifting of the ban. The delegation members included Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose del Castillo Savinon, director of CEI-RD Jean Alain Rodriguez, Minister of Agriculture Luis Ramon Rodriguez and Minister of Public Health Freddy Hidalgo. In an editorial today, Friday 14 June Diario Libre points out that no one from the Ministry of Foreign Relations was in the delegation.
The Haitian government announced its decision was based on the presence of avian flu in the Dominican Republic, but the Pan-American Health Organization clarified that while there is human influenza, there is neither avian nor swine flu in the Dominican Republic.
The ban was announced shortly after President Danilo Medina's meeting with President Michel Martelly in Haiti on the occasion of Environment Day, June 5. At the event, President Medina announced Dominican support for the reforestation of Haiti.
Poultry producers say that every week the border is closed to poultry exports costs producers have to find alternative markets for 4.9 million eggs, 750,000 lbs of poultry and one million pounds of salami, worth around RD$68.4 million.
En sala de espera decisi?n Hait? sobre veda - DiarioLibre.com
Gobierno eval?a buscar nuevos mercados? para exportar pollos - ElDia.com.do
Da?o a la imagen del pa?s - DiarioLibre.com
El Caribe ? Ministros haitianos ratifican rechazo a pollos y huevos de RD
Haiti - Health : The Dominican Republic awaiting the decision of the Government of Haiti - HaitiLibre.com, Haiti News, The haitian people's voice
How come the chickens and eggs are not "on sale" here in the DR>