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.

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.