President Danilo Medina has warned agricultural workers in Hondo Valle in Elias Pina province on the border with Haiti that they cannot keep cutting trees down in the mountains and said that the micro-climate in their area was the best to live in.
He said that Hondo Valle was only surpassed by Constanza in terms of weather but that he was going to ask the senator and mayor of the area to plan how to plant more trees in the mountains as they could not keep up the deforestation.
He was speaking during his weekend visit to the area, in which he agreed to give RD$9 million to the Federation of Agriculture and Coffee Workers of Our Lady of Fatima and the local irrigation organization in the southwest.
Medina also pledged to hand over a bulldozer to the local authority to start immediate repair on the roads, and would authorize Agriculture Development Fund director Antonio Lopez to start repairing the community greenhouse.
Coffee Growers Association president Mario Amador said that Hondo Valle was one of the best municipalities in the world thanks to its climate and that it was also perfect for developing mountain tourism. He asked the President to repair and rebuild the road from Hondo Valle to La Descubierta and from Hondo Valle to the provincial capital Comendador.
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