{"id":226089,"date":"2024-10-31T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=226089"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:40:00","slug":"time-to-eat-plantains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/31\/time-to-eat-plantains\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to eat plantains!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Platanos-Noticias-SIN-e1604497290549.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149330\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Limber Cruz is calling for Dominicans to increase their consumption of plantains due to a significant overproduction of the staple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We encourage all Dominicans to take advantage of this opportunity to consume more plantains and, in doing so, save money on their grocery bills,&#8221; Minister Cruz stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official noted that the country has been experiencing an overproduction of plantains for several weeks, with daily production increasing from 8 million to 11 million units after a shortage caused major price increases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This substantial increase in production has led to a significant decrease in the price of plantains for consumers, Cruz highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/llaman-a-la-poblacion-a-consumir-mas-platanos-por-sobreproduccion-en-el-pais-1739556\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 October 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture Minister Limber Cruz is calling for Dominicans to increase their consumption of plantains due to a significant overproduction of the staple. &#8220;We encourage all Dominicans to take advantage of this opportunity to consume more plantains and, in doing so, save money on their grocery bills,&#8221; Minister Cruz stated. The official noted that the country &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/31\/time-to-eat-plantains\/\" 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\/226089"}],"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=226089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226122,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226089\/revisions\/226122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}