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Friday 26 April 2013


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - Primative meat industry

Food security, agricultural development, bi-national development are the goals laid out following a meeting confirming the collaboration between the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (UNOFA).

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Saturday 19 January 2013


Dominican Republic

Dominican Rupublic - The island cannot supply meat for the home market

Agriculture Minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez recently met with the Director General of Livestock, Bolivar Toribio and Animal Health Director, Rafael Nunez, to put forward an operational plan to reopen exports of beef, chicken, pork and eggs to the US and other destinations such as the Caribbean.

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Friday 18 January 2013


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - Pig disease problems

In Barahona, Dominican Republic, dozens of pigs have died due to a rare disease.

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Saturday 01 December 2012


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - Cleaning up farming

The Agriculture Minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez announced that the Government is working on three fundamentals for achieving the country's livestock producers to realise meat and egg export potential.

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Monday 16 July 2012


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - Problems in the poultry industry

The Dominican Republic’s consumer protection agency is convinced that the recent jumps in chicken prices is due to criminal speculation, and had threatened with a nation-wide boycott.

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Tuesday 10 July 2012


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - Problems in the poultry industry

The Dominican Republic’s consumer protection agency is convinced that the recent jumps in chicken prices is due to criminal speculation, and had threatened with a nation-wide boycott.

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Tuesday 30 August 2011


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - The poultry trade

Poultry farmers have said fresh chicken should cost as much as RD$49 per pound, which is much higher than the RD$43 to RD$45 the vendors get in the barrios, reports Dominican Today. The reaction comes in the wake of complaints that grocery stores (colmados) and supermarkets sell the meat at as much as RD$55 per pound.

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Monday 08 August 2011


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - The poultry trade

Poultry farmers have said fresh chicken should cost as much as RD$49 per pound, which is much higher than the RD$43 to RD$45 the vendors get in the barrios, reports Dominican Today. The reaction comes in the wake of complaints that grocery stores (colmados) and supermarkets sell the meat at as much as RD$55 per pound.

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Tuesday 28 September 2010


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - The beef industry

The national beef sector can easily meet the Dominican population’s meat demand and reactivate exports to the United States, halted during the 1980s on sanitary problems.

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Friday 16 April 2010


Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic - The meat industry

Latin America Meat Industry Learns Technology Of Using Soy Proteins USSEC conducted a RAPCO Meat Course for Dominican Republic meat sausage producers and technicians, including officials from the Secretariat of Agriculture and the Secretariat of Public Health. Participants were trained in technology, meat and non-meat ingredients and adequate use of soy proteins in meat sausages.

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Tuesday 09 March 2010


Dominican Republic

Domonica Republic - Tax breaks for farmers

Customs director Rafael Camilo recently said the 50 per cent reduction on import fees for poultry and pig farmers seeks to protect those sectors and lead to lower prices of important staples for the Dominican population.

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