{"id":118650,"date":"2018-11-14T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=118650"},"modified":"2018-11-14T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:39:11","slug":"pineapple-exports-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/14\/pineapple-exports-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple exports to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-118641\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pineapples-Wikimedia-Commons-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The government has launched a program to back pineapple production and increase exports. The government sees pineapples as a possible export product to new markets in China, says Agriculture Minister Osmar Ben\u00edtez.<\/p>\n<p>The backing includes technical assistance, credit, logistics support and investments to build and upgrade packaging facilities.<br \/>\nBen\u00edtez said that last year pineapples contributed around US$4.35 million in exports and the amount should increase next year.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00e9ctor S\u00e1nchez, president of pineapple growers association in Cevicos, S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez province (Apropic), said there were currently around 100,000 tareas (6,500 hectares) of pineapple production in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fruitnet.com\/eurofruit\/article\/177145\/dr-looks-to-increase-pineapple-exports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fruit Net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14 November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has launched a program to back pineapple production and increase exports. The government sees pineapples as a possible export product to new markets in China, says Agriculture Minister Osmar Ben\u00edtez. The backing includes technical assistance, credit, logistics support and investments to build and upgrade packaging facilities. Ben\u00edtez said that last year pineapples contributed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/14\/pineapple-exports-to-increase\/\" 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\/118650"}],"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=118650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}