{"id":44117,"date":"1999-01-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-01-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/plaintain-prices-forecast-to-drop-by-february\/"},"modified":"1999-01-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-01-05T01:43:56","slug":"plaintain-prices-forecast-to-drop-by-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/05\/plaintain-prices-forecast-to-drop-by-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaintain prices forecast to drop by February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plantain producers say that by February prices will drop to RD$2 and RD$3 the unit as a large crop planted after Hurricane Georges begins to be harvested. Following Hurricane Georges, plantain prices soared to RD$5-RD$8 the unit, reflecting the scarcity. The hurricane destroyed ample areas that were planted with plantains, a most popular Dominican breakfast and dinner staple. Due to the high prices, Dominicans have replaced eating plantains with eating bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plantain producers say that by February prices will drop to RD$2 and RD$3 the unit as a large crop planted after Hurricane Georges begins to be harvested. Following Hurricane Georges, plantain prices soared to RD$5-RD$8 the unit, reflecting the scarcity. The hurricane destroyed ample areas that were planted with plantains, a most popular Dominican breakfast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/05\/plaintain-prices-forecast-to-drop-by-february\/\" 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":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44117"}],"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=44117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}