On Sunday, 11 February 2018, President Danilo Medina carried out one of his surprise visits to 100 pig farmers in Batey Jagual, in Ramón Santana municipality in San Pedro de Macorís province, in support of the production and commercialization of pork. The Presidency reported this was the President’s 195th unannounced visit.
The president of the Association of Female Entrepreneurs, Producers and Innovators (Asomepi), Elvira de los Santos, told reporters that the President was backing a project to breed and fatten pigs and that the Presidency would help them to finance the acquisition of office furniture and materials, a truck, minor farm equipment, and feed for the pigs.
The government would also help to finance the construction of a barn, the acquisition of 300 female pigs, 30 male pigs, and 5,000 quintals of feed as well as the installation of water tanks and feeding troughs.
Read more in Spanish:
https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias/danilo-empodera-porcicultoras-y-cacaocultores-de-spm-para-convertirlos-en-clase-media
13 February 2018
