{"id":195271,"date":"2023-03-20T04:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=195271"},"modified":"2023-03-20T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T12:33:48","slug":"rice-growers-express-worries-about-dr-cafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/20\/rice-growers-express-worries-about-dr-cafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice growers express worries about DR-CAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Siembra-Arroz-Diario-Libre-1024x671.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195328\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican rice growers are hoping government officials will come up with a way to get around opening to tariff-free rice imports. The authorities have set up a working group, Minister of Agriculture Limber Cruz Lopez has met with farmers from the growing regions, and President Abinader has expressed his support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR is a signatory of the DR-CAFTA free trade agreement with the United States that had established zero tariff rice imports would begin in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local farmers are concerned they would be affected if US rice competes in price with locally produced rice. Rice is a centerpiece of Dominican farming, and a mainstay for the economies of many provinces in the central Cibao region. The farmers are concerned their livelihoods will be seriously affected now that the deadline is approaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curiously, there was an article in the Diario Libre and the Listin Diario that stated that rice in the United States is more expensive than locally-produced grain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rice will continue to be on the front burner of the government\u2019s agricultural agenda in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican ambassador in Washington, D.C., Sonia Guzman was the chief negotiator for the DR-CAFTA signed during the Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/agro\/2023\/03\/17\/abinader-inaugura-feria-agropecuaria-nacional-2023\/2258600\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/agro\/2023\/03\/18\/la-preocupacion-de-los-arroceros-sobre-el-dr-cafta\/2259096\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/agro\/2023\/03\/18\/rd-estudia-pasos-a-dar-ante-la-apertura-del-mercado-de-arroz\/2259039\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2023\/03\/17\/767369\/abinader-reunira-a-productores-arroz-para-tratar-dr-cafta\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican rice growers are hoping government officials will come up with a way to get around opening to tariff-free rice imports. The authorities have set up a working group, Minister of Agriculture Limber Cruz Lopez has met with farmers from the growing regions, and President Abinader has expressed his support. The DR is a signatory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/20\/rice-growers-express-worries-about-dr-cafta\/\" 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\/195271"}],"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=195271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195330,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195271\/revisions\/195330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}