President Danilo Medina traveled to Sabana de la Mar in the province of Hato Mayor over the weekend of 28-29 September to speak to farmers and small business owners. He met with fishermen, rice producers and a women’s group that produces sheets, mosquito nets and curtains and another that makes sweets using coconuts, sweet potatoes and fruit. The President received requests for working capital, a cold storage unit and a 50-kilowatt power unit from the fishing association. The rice producers want low-cost financing for a rice polishing industry and power pumps to access the water of the Yubon River for their rice flats. The women asked for funds to increase their production of sweets. President Medina told the producers that the government is not giving out money, and that the loans will have to be repaid.
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