President Danilo Medina visited the tiny community of Rio Llano in the municipality of Santana, in the municipality of Higuey of La Altagracia province on Sunday 18 August. He offered financial assistance to rice farmers and cattle ranchers who have been working state-owned lands for over 30 years. As part of the President’s program of direct support for these small communities, he offered them RD$19 million in financing to acquire some 200 heifers and construct a rice mill. He then traveled on to the communities of Rio Llano and El Maicillo in Las Lagunas, Nisibon where he met with rice and taro farmers. As is normal in these meetings, the taro farmers asked the President to send equipment to improve the access roads to their fields. Medina also promised to send a teacher to the local school.
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