{"id":68468,"date":"2015-10-12T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=68468"},"modified":"2015-10-12T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:51:02","slug":"plantains-to-be-imported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/10\/12\/plantains-to-be-imported\/","title":{"rendered":"Plantains to be imported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Agriculture has authorized the import of plantains to prevent them from being sold for up to RD$30 each at retail level. In Santiago wholesale markets, plantains have been selling for RD$12-RD$20 per unit. Ministry spokesman Pedro Jimenez said that the Ministry is aware that the current shortages could continue and in order to protect consumers from having to pay RD$25-RD$30 for a plantain, imports from Costa Rica have been allowed on a temporary basis. <\/p>\n<p> In the Dominican Republic crop yields have been lower than normal due to the high temperatures and the prolonged drought. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/gobierno-autoriza-importar-platanos-para-evitar-que-se-vendan-a-rd-25-y-rd-30-la-unidad-EL1508327<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Agriculture has authorized the import of plantains to prevent them from being sold for up to RD$30 each at retail level. In Santiago wholesale markets, plantains have been selling for RD$12-RD$20 per unit. Ministry spokesman Pedro Jimenez said that the Ministry is aware that the current shortages could continue and in order &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/10\/12\/plantains-to-be-imported\/\" 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":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68468"}],"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=68468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}