Minister of Agriculture Luis Ramon Rodriguez announced yesterday, Tuesday 11 February that exports of Dominican chickens and eggs to Haiti would resume in around four weeks time, following the agreement that was signed between the Haitian and Dominican authorities at the bi-national meeting in Jimani on 3 February.
Rodriguez said that it would start from two farms that had been certified as healthy by the Haitian agricultural authorities, and then more as they too become certified.
He went on to say that the certification process was estimated to take six months and around 15 to 20 farms would be able to export to Haiti.
This would mean that around 40 million eggs a month, and around eight million chickens a month would be exported to Haiti, representing around RD$100 to 140 million per month for the country.
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