{"id":216716,"date":"2024-05-23T07:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=216716"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:04:38","slug":"wind-gusts-destroy-banana-plantations-in-montecristi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/23\/wind-gusts-destroy-banana-plantations-in-montecristi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind gusts destroy banana plantations in Montecristi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ventarron-destruye-plantacion-platanos-Monte-Cristi-Listin-Diario-1024x503.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216780\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ventarron-destruye-plantacion-platanos-Monte-Cristi-Listin-Diario-1024x503.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ventarron-destruye-plantacion-platanos-Monte-Cristi-Listin-Diario-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ventarron-destruye-plantacion-platanos-Monte-Cristi-Listin-Diario-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ventarron-destruye-plantacion-platanos-Monte-Cristi-Listin-Diario-1536x755.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ventarron-destruye-plantacion-platanos-Monte-Cristi-Listin-Diario.png 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The passing trough that brought strong wind gusts to Montecristi destroyed hundreds of banana and plantain trees in Monte Cristi, causing million-peso losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listin Diario reports that plantain producers in the Santa Mar\u00eda area of Montecristi are appealing to the government for help. \u201cWe ask the president and the Minister of Agriculture to come to our aid, because these are million-dollar losses that we have now,\u201d said Manuel Antonio Mart\u00ednez, one of the producers who was affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luis V\u00e1zquez Jim\u00e9nez told Listin Diario that he lost more than 30 tareas planted with bananas (1 tarea = 629 square meters), and said there are many more farmers in similar situations in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe call on the President to see if he will give us a helping hand. We as young people starting to work and see what happened to us, we are working to pay loans. We are now waiting for the President to help us,\u201d said Wascar Mart\u00ednez, another farmer who suffered major damages to his crop by the rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/provincias\/20240522\/lluvias-destruyen-cientos-plantaciones-platanos-monte-cristi-piden-ayuda-gobierno_809564.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 May 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passing trough that brought strong wind gusts to Montecristi destroyed hundreds of banana and plantain trees in Monte Cristi, causing million-peso losses. Listin Diario reports that plantain producers in the Santa Mar\u00eda area of Montecristi are appealing to the government for help. \u201cWe ask the president and the Minister of Agriculture to come to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/23\/wind-gusts-destroy-banana-plantations-in-montecristi\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216716"}],"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=216716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216782,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216716\/revisions\/216782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}