On Sunday 18 February 2018, President Danilo Medina was in Vicente Noble, Barahona, for his 196th “uannounced visit” to give support to the United Farmers Association (APAU) whose members want to plant around 1,000 tareas of dragon fruit, also known as pitahaya. President Medina also listened to their requests for a photocopy center, electrical pumps, to repair the local roads and irrigation canals as well as other water related issues.
Medina instructed the Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD) to donate two water pumps and to start to work to provide definitive title deeds to the landowners and also instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to repair the roads.
He said that someone from the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources would come to look at the issue of the irrigation canals. He also promised to look into the financing for the 1,000 tareas and promised to build a copy center and donate a truck.
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Diario Libre
20 February 2018
