Agriculture Tours

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William Patrick

Guest
Hello everyone,

I will be in Santo Domingo for the first time next week and I would like to know if anyone in here has any info on Agriculture Sightseeing Tours.

Any information will be appreciated.

WP
 
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Loren

Guest
This is going to sound weird, but you dont know the Dominican people. Find a taxi, get a price, say "take me to a farm" and then ask the farmer to show you around. The farmer will show you around, feed you dinner, then think you are doing him a favor by showing up. Really!

They will love to help you out any way they can. You dont need some kind of tourist rip off.
 
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DR One

Guest
The agriculture experts are the people at the Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana (Dominican Agribusiness Junta). Try contacting them at jad@codetel.net.do

They may be able to suggest someone who could give you the tour you are looking for.
 
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sean

Guest
There are several, so it depends on where you're going to be. The best place is Tropical Plantation north of Hato Mayor, which is a working flower farm (three kinds, canopy, tree and hothouse farms), which also run you through their several-hectare grounds showing you the various endemic trees to be found, along with birdlife, a typical campesino farm, plus examples of dozens of common crops as they are grown.

In the northeastern coast town of Cabrera, a hotel called La Catalina runs weekly tours to a working coffee plantation called Chez Jose that are quite good. American Express has a four-day tobacco tour that runs to some tobacco farms; otherwise you can drive to Tamboril and check the farms out for yourself. In Jarabacoa, Rancho Baiguate runs culture tours that go to a coffee factory and a cassava bread factory. There are also cassava factories in Moncion that are interesting, but this is a very out of the way place. In La Romana at the Jardin Dominicus restaurant, you can sign on for a boat/jeep tour that will take you to a peasant farm and a tobacco plantation. It's also worth checking out on your own the Haitian bateyes, where Haitian braceros chop fields of cane and carry the stuff back on oxen-powered carts. I'm sure that there are others, as well.