Keep destroying local Agriculture, Lie-onel your a genius!

I smell swindle.

Ridiculous on its face. The ideologues will appear shortly spouting their tired monotono-theism about free trade...in defense of subsidized foodstuffs!

Agriculture production and export of agriculture have never been higher .....what are you whining and complaining about josean ?

Prove it Baron Münchhausen, and in the mean time read this my old EMBARGOED friend!

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3663

My cousin who lives in DR tells me Leonel is without a doubt the most intelligent president the country has ever had and without a doubt the biggest thieve the country has ever had. I, without a doubt believe him. Leonel does not move a finger to do anything for the country unless he can get his greedy hands on a piece of the pie. It is ridiculous that these types of food have to be imported at all in a land were every can be grown by the locals. As usual this move will only benefit a few high power importers and of course the president himself.

Interesting that garlic is one of those products being imported. I was in DR a few weeks ago and went with my grandmother to a local market. She wanted to buy the local garlic variety among other things and the merchant had to sell her the local garlic away from view as if my grandmother was buying drugs because he could be fined for selling the home grown garlic which is better than the imported crap.

"My cousin who lives in DR tells me Leonel is without a doubt the most intelligent president the country has ever had and without a doubt the biggest thieve the country has ever had.'

Your cousin is 50% correct he is the biggest thieve the country has ever had!

The most intelligent president was Dr. Juan Bosch!

Josean let me ask you this how come a platano that does not require much to be produce cost 10 pesos. they should sell it for a lot less than let say 5 pesos. an egg is 5 pesos potato is 24 or 27 at the supermarket. so yes what the goverment doing is correct fuck the local farmars the only that matters to them is themselves. in your own opinion what do you think that should be the fare prices to the public for those items mentioned above? transportation cost has gone down by a least 20% since last octuber, yet but these people do not care about bringing the prices down for their fellows country men.

You didn't like my previous suggestion?

Leonel is a genius. His progressive policies while not perfect they are working. I mean just look at the record number of private investment and all the public works projects by the government. The DR will become the most successful mixed economy in Latin America by 2020!

"I mean just look at the record number of private investment and all the public works projects by the government.'

Please point them?

Hey Teddy Iam waiting!

josean agro harvest was a Dominican record http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....getable-harvest-will-set-a-record

JARABACOA.- Agriculture minister Salvador Jiménez said production under a system of controlled environment has grown, and affirmed that a record 43.3 million pounds of vegetables will be harvested this year.

The official said 2008’s total vegetable production increased by 15 million pounds, or 53 percent more than the previous year\s 28.3 million pounds.

Baron Münchhausen,

Like you, this government has no credibility!

so stop whining and complaining josean celebrate

Aren't you running late for the Klan meeting?

witty by half

josean tell us about the destruction of local agriculture again and this time make it real whiny

Why would want to here the opinion of us inferior Latinos? Mr. Oracle!

you dont have an opinion you have whining one liners....and you have never said anything positive about anything ever on this site .....just whine and complain ....in one liners .....you are a zero with the edges rubbed off....reflect on this josean you become more bitter and negative on a daily basis seek help ...I am serious ....from The Metro to Vivian to Embargo to a constant dentists drill on the President like a stalker.....get help

Written by: gouletcolonial, 22 Jan 2009 9:04 PM
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas Mahogany Run
JARABACOA.- Agriculture minister Salvador Jiménez said production under a system of controlled environment has grown, and affirmed that a record 43.3 million pounds of vegetables will be harvested this year.

The official said 2008’s total vegetable production increased by 15 million pounds, or 53 percent more than the previous year\s 28.3 million pounds.

as I said in a previous post that is a pathetic amount.

It will be bigger again next year ...the point is it being increased or as josean says destroyed ....The numbers speak for themselves

GC the numbers don't speak for themselves without details as to what it is that has grown. It's certainly positive to have great big crops but there are other issues here around what is being imported with precious foreign exchange. No doubt it could still be a net positive, but I'm suspicious that a country capable of producing these staples would be importing them.

I can't believe what I'm reading? Some people here are either blind or just plain dumb. If agricultural production is at an all time high then why on hell are we importing and why on earth are prices at an all time high. It just does not add up. I don't care how many figures are quoted by officials because the reality tells me different. Some people in here need to get acquainted with the law of supply and demand.

Manny potatoes and onions are dead ends as long as Cafta exists also garlic ....Cash crops for export to USA or down island should be the goal..the high prices locally are speculation and profit gouging by the traditional players

"fruit production showed excellent results with the implementation of the Project Greenhouses. "From the 1.6 million square meters of structures we had in 2007, we reached 2.2 million square meters this year, an increase of 38.6 percent."

In that regard the Agriculture Minister said vegetables grown under protected environment have a guaranteed market, via contracts previously established with companies in the country and abroad.

The official said of the 43.3 million pounds of vegetables harvested, around 30 million pounds were exported, or 68.5 percent, with around 25.1 million dollars in income, whereas local market sales reached RD$358 million.

Kokoloco start believing it

The superior one has spoken!

josean please " The Great One "

The only thing you know about farming fields is they are good for cross-burnings, Klansman!

what no more Metro no more Vivian no more Embargo no more teachers dirty looks ....Just the slimy race card over and over ....small things amuse small minds

GC while those are dead ends in turns of returning the best profit from my point of view (as a 'Rothschild' :P) I question the wisdom of a structure that rewards burning foreign exchange on these items. I try to keep in mind the risk of a currency crisis and potential outcomes, and it makes me think there has to be a wiser way.

In this day and age you may have a point ...I am using a mindset that I think may no longer apply in the current economic situation....

It is ridiculous that we should be importing food staples with so much land adequate for all kinds of food production, this shows a real lack of proper planning by the agriculture ministry and lack of vision by the government to finance this investment in the country.
The government officials stated that the imports were motivated so as to force the local producers to lower prices, which seems like bushu to me. Supply and demand always are the best motivators for
lower prices, not price controls.
If there was abundant supply then prices will drop.
I also find contradictory the duties that will be paid by importing the other food items, if the reasoning is to lower the prices then why charge duties at all? Doesn't make sense.
But of course the fiscally predatory policies and unending hunger for fresh income for the government spending sprees has to be satisfied by the consumers, who are always paying the bill.