SANTO DOMINGO. - The Russian government yesterday proposed to President Danilo Medina opening a trade route between the Dominican Republic and Russia to bring tourists to the country and return laden with fruits and vegetables.
During the nearly one hour meeting Russian Ambassador Vladimir Zaemskiy told Medina that the more than 15 flights from his country which return empty could instead return to Russia loaded with fruits and vegetables.
He also proposed bringing more Russian tourists to Dominican Republic, especially Puerto Plata. He said 180,000 Russians visited the country last year.
"There are several projects, such as exports of various fruits and vegetables, because many flights come from Russia and return virtually empty, with a large capacity to carry fruits and vegetables from Dominican Republic to Russia, not just Moscow, but St. Petersburg, the second capital," Zaemskiy said.
He affirmed that Russian agencies analyzed the items to be exported and will decide which supplies are needed.
Zaemskiy said Medina promised to analyze the proposal and issue the necessary instructions, and to meet again upon his return.
Zaemskiy asked Medina to allow a test flight from Russia to Puerto Plata, "because in that province they have all the facilities and capabilities, besides the climate, that the Russians need, and wouldn’t take away flights from Punta Cana."
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Win Win what will Dread and josie find to whine and complain about
From: Cuba, La Havana, Que Viva La Revolucion
Zaemskiy asked Medina to allow a test flight from Russia to Puerto Plata, "because in that province they have all the facilities and capabilities, besides the climate, that the Russians need, and wouldn’t take away flights from Punta Cana."
Yea Zaemskiy. and the Chicas are cheeper to something like 3 to 1.
Written by: abc200, 19 Sep 2012 8:14 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
More flights will make some posters travel to Siberia very much easier. They may need a change from the Falkland islands where all they have to do all day is watch buzzards and turns....
abc200
Written by: raulm, 19 Sep 2012 8:25 AM
From: United States
I don't know what the Russians are use to, but the fruit in the D.R. is ugly and sour all year round.
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
In Siberia they are Used to no fruits ...except the josean kind...".not that there is anything wrong with that "
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Sep 2012 8:29 AM
From: Australia
What fruit and vegetables? Most of those I buy in Serena are imported from the USA! So how will the Russian tourists go home again, when the planes are full of mangoes and plantains?
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
It is a new inmigración plan for Russians ....we will bus them to Puerto Plata to live in empty hotel rooms
Written by: Yucahu, 19 Sep 2012 8:51 AM
From: United States, Miami
It's La SIRENA, soon to be WAL-Mart. The fruit in DR are as fresh and as sweet as anywhere else. Our vegetables are delicious, anything can grow here our land is so good. So shut your mouth ignorante imbecile.
Written by: raulm, 19 Sep 2012 9:15 AM
From: United States
Yucahu is your a prime example the fruit are bad and what ever you type bad here it go's back to the one who had you.
Written by: juanb, 19 Sep 2012 9:22 AM
From: Dominican Republic
The Russians that I have dealt with only want cueros and booze.
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Sep 2012 9:37 AM
From: Australia
Yucahu,
The only edible carrots in La La Serena are imported from California and Florida. The local carrots are like lumps of drift-wood. The local oranges are full of rot, or are tasteless and dry. Local grapefruit are almost black with fungus, and local mandarins are full of seeds. The local bananas are riddled with black bruising. I don't call that fresh, sweet or delicious. The tropical fruits are okay sometimes, terrible at other times - you take pot-luck. The only reliably good fruit like I said is imported and expensive.
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Roy you are so full of SALAMI........
The fruit and Vegies are great here in the DR.
Now if you dont like them dont buy them, dont eat them...
Better yet
Why dont you go back to your hell hole down under where you can eat your kangaroo SALAMI and all the other backwoods crap you fools eat.
Come salami
Written by: Pedrin, 19 Sep 2012 10:09 AM
From: United States
JuanB- Right on. They came to the right place.
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Roy the red neck is not shopping in the right places.....quality control was always the problema but has improved tremendously ...Cruise Ships are buying plenitud and export of many ítems is growing each year.....Roy would rather have cardboard tomatoes from Miami like the rest of the Carribbean
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Roy the red neck is not shopping in the right places.....quality control was always the problema but has improved tremendously ...Cruise Ships are buying plenitud and export of many ítems is growing each year.....Roy would rather have cardboard tomatoes from Miami like the rest of the Carribbean
From: United States
While Roy may have made a valid point he is only half right. The produce grown in the DR is of great quality and among the best. Unfortunately, the majority of the top grade are exported to Europe and the US but what remains for local consumption tends to be second rate. However, that does not necessarily mean you can't get the better quality produce.
Regardless of opinion, export quality produce is available and can be found at select locations all over and through out the DR. However, I am from the Cibao known as the food basket of the DR where fresh fruits and vegetables can be found anywhere. I don't ever recall having a problem with quality and availability. Nevertheless, I can't deny, those that reside outside of this region or live a distance away from agricultural areas and must depend on large scale supermarkets can at times be at a disadvantage with regards to access to the best money can buy.
Written by: FromB, 19 Sep 2012 10:29 AM
From: Belgium
Dear co-writers,
When a country, such as the dominican republic, exports fruit, to f.e. Europe, these fruits are submit to quality control at exporting country AND at the importing country.
In many ( most ) cases, the fruits, vegetables and other perishables, which are not meeting the required standards ( which does not mean that they taste different or less ), are used in the local markets.
And regarding the Russians, indeed, how can full planes arrive and only empties return, hilarious example of ....
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Billy you wont find the good stuff in colmados you Have to go to a súper market like the rest of the world....ie.Nacional or Cadena etc.
From: United States
“Llevo guandules, llevo ají, llevo molondrones, llevo yuca, llevo bataaaaaata”.
Those were the very distinct and familiar words of the "Marchantas" who loudly announced their wares to market. They were female street peddlers who rode on donkeys through streets of small towns and villages. Since the turn of the century, these hard working, stern, matronly looking women got up and out of bed very early in the morning before sunrise and sold pick of the day fruits and vegetables direct and fresh from the farm. Today most are almost all but gone, but it was the traditional way people used to buy these staples before the rise and proliferation major supermarket chains.
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Nostalgia,just aint what it Used to be"
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Billy remember 1926 that was the year "the Peanut Vendor" or "El Manicero" song introduced Cuban/Latino música to the world ....it was stunning the effecit it had on América and Europe.....talk about street vendors......
Written by: mrtibes, 19 Sep 2012 1:13 PM
From: United States
The good benefit from this is that some Dominicans who want to study abroad will have an oppertunity to learn in Russa besides aquiring new technologies then theres the negitive side of it all. Roy Stone doesn't shop for fruit in the DR the only fruit he's interested in is Cueros. Just another Exploiter that's all..Since you know so much Roy why don't you start a co-op and show the locals proper farming technique instead of trashing the DR so much..
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Sep 2012 1:29 PM
From: Australia
Thanks, mrtibes, but I already have, be it on a very small scale, showing the benefits of composting and mulching. I have also started a pilot project to grow Acai palms. Dominican soil and climate is conducive to many high-value cash crops, however the growers lack imagination and and grow low-value crops like plantain and beans because that's all they know and have done so for generations.
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Are you related to ABC Roy?
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
Are you related to ABC Roy?
Written by: mrtibes, 19 Sep 2012 1:49 PM
From: United States
Well my apologies to you for my comments and cudoes to you for trying...
Written by: IloveDR, 19 Sep 2012 3:00 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
I must agree with Roy in this case.. But not all Dominican products are bad!
Written by: josean, 19 Sep 2012 3:47 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Written by: juanb, 19 Sep 2012 9:22 AM
From: Dominican Republic
The Russians that I have dealt with only want cueros and booze.
Just like dreamkiller, as long as they are MALE leathers!
From: Dominican Republic
I don't understand the empty flights home...makes little sense and a VERY expensive proposition to do so, given the large distance traveled. Are all of these Russians becoming residents???
From: United States
It is common or not unusual for DT articles to not make sense at times. I guess something got lost on the translation. They will get it right one day, I hope. In the mean time, I will go get myself and eat some fresh strawberries from Constanza.
From: Cuba, La Havana, Que Viva La Revolucion
Guillermore, good try
Strawberries are out of season.
From: United States
PuntaCana, i wonder what would be the transportation costs per pound to move agricultural products by air freight from POP to Moscow.
From: United States, NJ
dreadlocks;
When considering all the Russian Air Liners are subsidized by their gvt and Russia is a major
producer and exporter of oil and its derivatives, I would say given the size of planes they have .
they could afford the cost if they are getting fresh produce, like Germany is from POP over US$50
million a year for bannanas along.
From: United States
that is why i asked the question, Mr Rancier. makes perfect sense, now that you put it like that.
Written by: Yucahu, 20 Sep 2012 2:55 AM
From: United States, Miami
I'm a prime example of your still being an ignorant and an imbecile. Roy, there are many places where the veggies and the fruits are excellent and fresh. If you are to fruity and too much of a vegetable ( ya eggplant) to keep buying garbage so be it.
Written by: Yucahu, 20 Sep 2012 2:56 AM
From: United States, Miami
I didn't call you an imbecile or an ignoramus Roy. I mightve called you a flowerpot but hey you know I love ya ;)
From: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fighting Joseans lunacy .Stop Guillermo the commie thief in 2016
PC Mike yes as i mentioned before they will be bused to Puerto Plata and moved into empty hotel rooms as immigrants.....thus solving Dreads 14 percent hotel occupancy problem
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PC Mike yes as i mentioned before they will be bused to Puerto Plata and moved into empty hotel rooms as immigrants.....thus solving Dreads 14 percent hotel occupancy problem
Written by: josean, 20 Sep 2012 7:03 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
The Alzheimer's is kicking in!
From: United States
kicking in?? that was 20 years ago, Josean.
From: United States
besides fruits and veggies...im sure the negative elements will also want to traffic morenitas to russia (and area) and rubias (slaves) over here...
only a matter of time till the wealthy russian mafia start setting up base and dining with dominican politicians
From: United States
matter of time? what makes you think it is not currently happening?
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Sep 2012 6:56 PM
From: Australia
Honest Russians have already invested squillions in the Gold Coast of Australia - a much safer environment with a secure future. The Dominican Republic will only attract the cut-and-run crooks. Russian crooks will leave the local ones for dead.
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Zaemskiy asked Medina to allow a test flight from Russia to Puerto Plata, "because in that province they have all the facilities and capabilities, besides the climate, that the Russians need, and wouldn’t take away flights from Punta Cana."
Yea Zaemskiy. and the Chicas are cheeper to something like 3 to 1.
abc200
The Russians that I have dealt with only want cueros and booze.
The only edible carrots in La La Serena are imported from California and Florida. The local carrots are like lumps of drift-wood. The local oranges are full of rot, or are tasteless and dry. Local grapefruit are almost black with fungus, and local mandarins are full of seeds. The local bananas are riddled with black bruising. I don't call that fresh, sweet or delicious. The tropical fruits are okay sometimes, terrible at other times - you take pot-luck. The only reliably good fruit like I said is imported and expensive.
Roy you are so full of SALAMI........
The fruit and Vegies are great here in the DR.
Now if you dont like them dont buy them, dont eat them...
Better yet
Why dont you go back to your hell hole down under where you can eat your kangaroo SALAMI and all the other backwoods crap you fools eat.
Come salami
Regardless of opinion, export quality produce is available and can be found at select locations all over and through out the DR. However, I am from the Cibao known as the food basket of the DR where fresh fruits and vegetables can be found anywhere. I don't ever recall having a problem with quality and availability. Nevertheless, I can't deny, those that reside outside of this region or live a distance away from agricultural areas and must depend on large scale supermarkets can at times be at a disadvantage with regards to access to the best money can buy.
When a country, such as the dominican republic, exports fruit, to f.e. Europe, these fruits are submit to quality control at exporting country AND at the importing country.
In many ( most ) cases, the fruits, vegetables and other perishables, which are not meeting the required standards ( which does not mean that they taste different or less ), are used in the local markets.
And regarding the Russians, indeed, how can full planes arrive and only empties return, hilarious example of ....
Those were the very distinct and familiar words of the "Marchantas" who loudly announced their wares to market. They were female street peddlers who rode on donkeys through streets of small towns and villages. Since the turn of the century, these hard working, stern, matronly looking women got up and out of bed very early in the morning before sunrise and sold pick of the day fruits and vegetables direct and fresh from the farm. Today most are almost all but gone, but it was the traditional way people used to buy these staples before the rise and proliferation major supermarket chains.
Written by: juanb, 19 Sep 2012 9:22 AM
From: Dominican Republic
The Russians that I have dealt with only want cueros and booze.
Just like dreamkiller, as long as they are MALE leathers!
Guillermore, good try
Strawberries are out of season.
When considering all the Russian Air Liners are subsidized by their gvt and Russia is a major
producer and exporter of oil and its derivatives, I would say given the size of planes they have .
they could afford the cost if they are getting fresh produce, like Germany is from POP over US$50
million a year for bannanas along.
The Alzheimer's is kicking in!
only a matter of time till the wealthy russian mafia start setting up base and dining with dominican politicians