During a visit to Elias Pina province on Saturday, President Leonel Fernandez said that the government would be re-launching the Quisqueya Verde Plan along the border with Haiti, and described the deforestation in the area as “dramatic”. The Chief Executive referred to this situation as he started off the Presidential Social Plan’s Christmas food parcels distribution.<\/p>\n
Fernandez said that he would instruct Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal to begin a reinforcement program of the Quisqueya Verde Plan all along the frontier.<\/p>\n
He observed, “You can see the degradation in terms of forest cover between the Haitian side and the Dominican side”, while speaking to reporters covering the trip.<\/p>\n
He added that dramatic though the difference between the Haitian and Dominican sides of the frontier may be, there is a need to preserve Dominican reforestation efforts.<\/p>\n
President Fernandez said that this tour along the frontier, as well as the forestry situation, allowed him to see details of the day-to-day lives of local residents who are often out of sight. He stressed the need to support farm production, to fix roads, bridges and supply pumps for irrigation.<\/p>\n
He said that these small details were the communities’ concerns, and this allows him to give instructions to the officials to get things right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During a visit to Elias Pina province on Saturday, President Leonel Fernandez said that the government would be re-launching the Quisqueya Verde Plan along the border with Haiti, and described the deforestation in the area as “dramatic”. The Chief Executive referred to this situation as he started off the Presidential Social Plan’s Christmas food parcels … <\/p>\n