{"id":115533,"date":"2018-08-20T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=115533"},"modified":"2018-08-20T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:18:06","slug":"drought-affects-farm-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/08\/20\/drought-affects-farm-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought affects farm produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115510\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115510\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Agriculture-El-Dia-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El D\u00eda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture has requested that rice farmers not plan for a third harvest this year because they may not have enough water to do so. Agriculture Minister Osmar Benitez said that the drought has affected the water levels in reservoirs, and the water available for human consumption.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at the Presidency after meeting with President Danilo Medina to report on the situation. The water levels are below the normal for this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned the dams of Sabaneta, Rincon, Valdesia, Tavera-Bao, Moncion, Rio Blanco, Pinalito, Palomino.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers in the San Juan de la Maguana valley estimate in RD$95 million losses so far for the drought.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/sequia-podria-afectar-la-siembra-de-habichuela-en-toda-la-region-sur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20 August 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Agriculture has requested that rice farmers not plan for a third harvest this year because they may not have enough water to do so. Agriculture Minister Osmar Benitez said that the drought has affected the water levels in reservoirs, and the water available for human consumption. He spoke at the Presidency after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/08\/20\/drought-affects-farm-produce\/\" 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\/115533"}],"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=115533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}