{"id":108420,"date":"2018-01-16T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=108420"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:38:53","slug":"pitahaya-farming-is-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/16\/pitahaya-farming-is-profitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitahaya farming is profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-108380\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pitahaya-Wikipedia-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" \/>Pitahaya production in the Dominican Republic is on the increase. According to a note in Fresh Plaza online portal, the country has farms in several provinces with 38 hectares planted and able to produce yearly crops valued at almost RD$20 million. Plantations are located in the East, Santiago and Neiba in the southwest. The pitahaya (also known as dragon fruit) has great health benefits and a high demand in international markets.<\/p>\n<p>According to the vice president of the Pitahaya Producers Cluster, Abraham Mora, producers make around RD$33,000 in profit each year for every tarea (1 tarea = 629 square meters) that they cultivate, which is around RD$495,000 per hectare. Mora said that that the 150 pitahaya producers exported the product to Spain and the United States last year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshplaza.com\/article\/187820\/Dominican-Republic-The-pitahaya-is-highly-profitable\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Plaza<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 January 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitahaya production in the Dominican Republic is on the increase. According to a note in Fresh Plaza online portal, the country has farms in several provinces with 38 hectares planted and able to produce yearly crops valued at almost RD$20 million. Plantations are located in the East, Santiago and Neiba in the southwest. The pitahaya &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/16\/pitahaya-farming-is-profitable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}