{"id":41391,"date":"2001-10-22T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-10-22T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/banana-exports-way-up\/"},"modified":"2001-10-22T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-10-22T01:43:56","slug":"banana-exports-way-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/10\/22\/banana-exports-way-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana exports way up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banana exports to Europe have gone up 80 per cent since last year. Agriculture Secretary Eligio J&aacute;quez says 70,000 boxes were shipped weekly in August of 2000 and that rose to 126,000 boxes a week by October 2001. That increase represents RD$10 million over the same time frame. J&aacute;quez attributes the substantial increase to projects that improved the banana export infrastructure such as irrigation systems, packing plants, the donation of fungicides and other products to prevent plant diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banana exports to Europe have gone up 80 per cent since last year. Agriculture Secretary Eligio J&aacute;quez says 70,000 boxes were shipped weekly in August of 2000 and that rose to 126,000 boxes a week by October 2001. That increase represents RD$10 million over the same time frame. J&aacute;quez attributes the substantial increase to projects &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/10\/22\/banana-exports-way-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41391"}],"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=41391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}