{"id":194344,"date":"2023-03-02T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=194344"},"modified":"2023-03-02T08:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:35:46","slug":"dr-is-major-importer-of-us-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/02\/dr-is-major-importer-of-us-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"DR is major importer of US pork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Cerdos-Pxfuel-e1628172196718.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162526\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the third straight year, agricultural exports from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic have reached a record with pork leading the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic imported US$234 million in pork exports in 2022, a 55% increase from US$151 million imported in 2021, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service GAIn Report of the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe increased demand for pork products is a direct reflection of the severe impact of African swine fever (ASF) on local swine production,\u201d USDA noted in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local pork production in the Dominican Republic is estimated to be 30% lower since the ASF outbreak in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total US agricultural exports to the Dominican Republic reached an all-time record of US$2.2 billion in 2022; a 14% increase from last year&#8217;s previous record. The high demand for other meat products and consumer-oriented products was driven by an increase in the number of tourists visiting the country in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Dominican Republic\u2019s Central Bank, the country received 7,165, 387 tourists in 2022, a 43% increase from the number of tourists in 2021 (4,994,313). Reports say tourists demanded more than $150 million in agricultural products in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dairyherd.com\/news\/dairy-production\/us-exports-dominican-republic-reach-record-high-pork-leads-way\">Dairy Herd <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swineweb.com\/us-agricultural-exports-to-the-dominican-republic-reach-a-new-all-time-record-in-2022\/\">Swine Web <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third straight year, agricultural exports from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic have reached a record with pork leading the way. The Dominican Republic imported US$234 million in pork exports in 2022, a 55% increase from US$151 million imported in 2021, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service GAIn Report of the United States &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/02\/dr-is-major-importer-of-us-pork\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194344"}],"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=194344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194393,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194344\/revisions\/194393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}