{"id":131708,"date":"2019-10-03T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=131708"},"modified":"2019-10-07T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T21:03:40","slug":"cacao-exports-reach-195-million-dollars-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/03\/cacao-exports-reach-195-million-dollars-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cacao exports reach 195 million dollars this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"948\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cacao-Tree-El-Dia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cacao-Tree-El-Dia.jpg 948w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cacao-Tree-El-Dia-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cacao-Tree-El-Dia-768x672.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Osmar Ben\u00edtez says that 2018-2019 has been a good year for cacao producers with exports of 73,000 metric tons, contributing US$195 million dollars to the national economy. On occasion of the National and International Cacao Day, Ben\u00edtez said that government lending to cacao producers is now at more than RD$6 billion, at a preferential rate of 8% over the past four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the government expects to have five million plants produced in nurseries to meet the demand for the crop. Two new regional centers have been established in Barahona for the South and Mao for the Northwest. Other nurseries are under construction in Palo Alto and Dajab\u00f3n, with capacity for 400,000 and 150,000 seedlings, respectively. The 35 nurseries nationwide will give the country the capacity to produce almost 4.5 million plants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benitez said that 20% of Dominican cacao exports are of fine cacao or aroma cacao, defined by the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO). He urged all present to maintain the deep passion felt for producing cacao to ensure the permanence of the Dominican Republic as an elite producer and leader in export of the best organic cacao in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/exportaciones-de-cacao-alcanzan-los-195-millones-de-dolares-este-ano\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture Minister Osmar Ben\u00edtez says that 2018-2019 has been a good year for cacao producers with exports of 73,000 metric tons, contributing US$195 million dollars to the national economy. On occasion of the National and International Cacao Day, Ben\u00edtez said that government lending to cacao producers is now at more than RD$6 billion, at a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/03\/cacao-exports-reach-195-million-dollars-this-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131708"}],"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=131708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131756,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131708\/revisions\/131756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}