During a visit to Los Llanos in the province of San Pedro de Macoris yesterday, Sunday 10 May 2015, President Danilo Medina offered government financing for cultivation of 32,000 tareas of sugarcane. He also said the government would finance the machinery for the sugar mill. The members of the San Jose de los Llanos Independent Sugar Growers Association also asked for the road from Los Llanos to El Puerto to be paved, in order to transport 60% of the sugarcane they would produce. Medina said that the road was already being considered. The government said that of the total, the State Sugar Council (CEA) would finance 16,000 tareas and the rest would come from Presidency funds.
A tarea is a land measure only used in the DR. It is equivalent to 629 square meters.
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