President Medina backs farm project Hermanas Mirabal province
On Sunday, 2 September 2018, President Danilo Medina set in motion an agroforestry development project in a mountainous area in Hermanas Mirabal province, in the north of the country. The project consists of the planting of 2,500 tareas (1 tarea = 629 square meters) of coffee and 1,000 tareas of cacao that is expected to generate 1,322 direct jobs and benefit directly 6,700 habitants of the area.
President Medina ordered the ministries of the Environment and Agriculture to supply the coffee and cacao plants and to install a new greenhouse for a million saplings and agricultural plants, as well as to repair 100 of the 200 homes in the project area and provide 100 cows to 100 women for a cattle ranching project.
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Presidencia
4 September 2018
