{"id":3408,"date":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/rice-at-rd4-a-pound\/"},"modified":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","slug":"rice-at-rd4-a-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/03\/13\/rice-at-rd4-a-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice at RD$4 a pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rice farmers have reached an agreement with the government on the<br \/>\n300,000 quintales (approximately 30 million pounds) of surplus rice that has been languishing in stores. At a meeting between President<br \/>\nHip?lito Mej?a and leading rice producers, it was decided that the rice would be sold at RD$4 per pound. Although this move was aimed at<br \/>\nplacating the farmers, as well as ensuring that this basic staple was available at an affordable price during a time of economic crisis, it<br \/>\nappears that there will be no restrictions in the distribution and sale of the rice, which will be available in the colmados.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice farmers have reached an agreement with the government on the 300,000 quintales (approximately 30 million pounds) of surplus rice that has been languishing in stores. At a meeting between President Hip?lito Mej?a and leading rice producers, it was decided that the rice would be sold at RD$4 per pound. Although this move was aimed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/03\/13\/rice-at-rd4-a-pound\/\" 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":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408"}],"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=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}