{"id":94915,"date":"2017-01-27T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=94915"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:10:06","slug":"agriculture-rd2-5-billion-to-northwest-for-flooding-remediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/agriculture-rd2-5-billion-to-northwest-for-flooding-remediation\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture: RD$2.5 billion to Northwest for flooding remediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94917\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-94917 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/banana-plantation-300x170.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooded banana plantation in Montecristi \/ amoamao.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Agriculture Minister \u00c1ngel Est\u00e9vez says the government has made available RD$2.5 billion to help farmers recover from their crop losses in the Northwest. Farms along several rivers were damaged due to the flooding when the government ordered the release of water in dams in the highlands to avoid the failure of these dams.<\/p>\n<p>Est\u00e9vez said that RD$1.33 billion would be used to rehabilitate primarily the banana farms in the area. The funds are available through the Banco Agr\u00edcola.<\/p>\n<p>Some RD$124 million has been set aside to improve rural roads that were damaged. Est\u00e9vez also said the Ministry is working on rehabilitation of 155 kms of rural roads in Montecristi that were damaged by the flooding. Drainage structures will be built to prevent future road damage. He also highlighted that the INDRHI is working on the installation of breakwaters in the Yaque River basin to avoid future damage.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/gobierno-destina-rd-2-500-millones-a-la-agricultura-a-linea-noroeste-MM6086835\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>27 January 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture Minister \u00c1ngel Est\u00e9vez says the government has made available RD$2.5 billion to help farmers recover from their crop losses in the Northwest. Farms along several rivers were damaged due to the flooding when the government ordered the release of water in dams in the highlands to avoid the failure of these dams. Est\u00e9vez said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/agriculture-rd2-5-billion-to-northwest-for-flooding-remediation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94915"}],"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=94915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}