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Santo Domingo .- Agricultural Bank administrator Paino Abreu Friday announced the highest amount of money available for farmers in its history, which he said would fight the global food crisis.

 

He said since the Government recognized the need to invest more on crops, it has allocated RD$7.5 billion for loans to help farmer with their harvests at a low interest rate.

 

In a press conference, Abreu said the loans provided from January to May this year helped harvest 657,860 tareas, for an increase of 21.8 percent compared with the previous year.

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Written by: dominicanitaUSA, 8 Jun 2008 10:43 AM
From: United States
Me alegra tanto ver como tenemos un gobierno que realmente se esta encargando de las cosas mas importante de nuestra hermosa patria DR la agricultura es tan necesaria para el progreso de la economia y la vida cotidiana ......solo espero que no se empieze con ningun tipo de corrupcion y que los fondo llegen realmente a las manos de las personas que le van a dar el uso real.......:)
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Written by: Belial, 8 Jun 2008 3:28 PM
From: United States, Texas
In a capitalist economy and bourgeois society like that in the DR and USA, workers are usually brainwashed to believe that only the bourgeois has entrepreneurial spirit -- that is, only the bourgeoisie can initiate, organize, and finish things.

The entrepreneurialship of the proletariat is viewed as a joke.

Here's an article from the AP, a powerful outlet of the US capitalist press, headlined "Cuba's urban farming program a stunning success."

http://fe4.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/a...._ylt=Ag1nSqR94AJdFoOyEku1URK3IxIF

Actually, this proletarian success in Cuba in more stunning than this sometimes snide article in the capitalist press lets on. How stunning? "Today, they [the Cubans] eat 3,547 calories a day — more than what the U.S. government recommends for American citizens," AP reports. This is the highest per capita caloric consumption in Latin America.

The AP article says other countries may want to or have to adopt Cuban methods.
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