{"id":109335,"date":"2018-02-13T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=109335"},"modified":"2018-02-13T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:46:36","slug":"president-medina-reaches-out-to-help-pig-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/13\/president-medina-reaches-out-to-help-pig-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"President Medina reaches out to help pig farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109320\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109320\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Surprise-visit-SPM-Presidency-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surprise visit to San Pedro de Macorix \/ Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday, 11 February 2018, President Danilo Medina carried out one of his surprise visits to 100 pig farmers in Batey Jagual, in Ram\u00f3n Santana municipality in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds province, in support of the production and commercialization of pork. The Presidency reported this was the President\u2019s 195th unannounced visit.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/danilo-empodera-porcicultoras-y-cacaocultores-de-spm-para-convertirlos-en-clase-media<\/p>\n<p>13 February 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 11 February 2018, President Danilo Medina carried out one of his surprise visits to 100 pig farmers in Batey Jagual, in Ram\u00f3n Santana municipality in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds province, in support of the production and commercialization of pork. The Presidency reported this was the President\u2019s 195th unannounced visit. The president of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/13\/president-medina-reaches-out-to-help-pig-farmers\/\" 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\/109335"}],"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=109335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}