On Sunday, 5 November 2017, President Danilo Medina was in Bahoruco near the border with Haiti to encourage more advances on the governmental “Let’s Reforest Quisqueya Plan” that seeks to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of this impoverished region, by slowing the deforestation. Medina was there to check on advances on the agro-forestry program that he calls the most ambitious initiative to protect and recover the forest and water sources.
During the visit, Medina repeated the phrase he often says that the most important thing is the people, and that he wanted to ensure that the children and grandchildren of the producers would have something to live off. He went on to say that he wanted simple subsistence farmers to be transformed agricultural businesspersons. Referring to avocados, he said he was not enough just to grow them, but the farmers had to learn how to package them and export them.
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Presidencia
7 November 2017
