All posts tagged "agriculture"

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  Irrigation systems vital for D.R. agriculture

  INDRHI invested RD $12.71B, benefiting 2.5M users

  • Posted August 13, 2017
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  Farming sector backs industrial hemp cultivation in Puerto Rico

  Several groups argue the island has the ideal conditions for harvest and research

  • Posted June 9, 2017
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  Tax Breaks in D.R. Fail to Boost Agro Sector

  Job generation remains unstable

  • Posted June 4, 2017
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  Senate confirms Sonny Perdue as agriculture secretary

  WASHINGTON – The Senate on Monday confirmed former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be agriculture secretary in President Donald Trump’s administration as the farming industry looks to Washington for help amid a downturn in the market. Perdue won...

  • Posted April 24, 2017
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  Puerto Rico Delegation Requests Federal Funds for Agriculture

  SAN JUAN – Senate Agriculture Committee President Luis Berdiel Rivera announced Thursday that he will meet with representatives of federal agencies on Feb. 27, in order to request funds for Puerto Rico’s farming and fishing industry. Also joining the meeting...

  • Posted February 16, 2017
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  Watermelon Corp. bets on Puerto Rico

  The company wants to export products completely made in Puerto Rico

  • Posted February 14, 2017
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  State of emergency declared amid heavy rains

  SAN JUAN – Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard due to heavy rains that have caused $13 million in crop losses. Interim Gov. Víctor Suárez said Tuesday that coffee, rice, fruits...

  • Posted November 22, 2016
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  Expert: Straying from Food Security Plan could be dangerous for Puerto Rico

  SAN JUAN – If Gov.-elect Ricardo Rosselló’s administration doesn’t continue the local Agriculture Department’s ongoing food security efforts, the executive director of the Innovation Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA by its Spanish acronym), agronomist Saritza Aulet Padilla, said during...

  • Posted November 16, 2016
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  Arctic Farming: Town Turns to Hydroponics for Fresh Greens

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The landscape is virtually treeless around a coastal hub town above Alaska’s Arctic Circle, where even summer temperatures are too cold for northern-growing forests to take root. Amid these unforgiving conditions, a creative kind...

  • Posted November 4, 2016
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  A decade of crop loss from Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

  LES CAYES, Haiti — As Hurricane Matthew roared across southwestern Haiti, Joselien Jean-Baptiste huddled with his family while the wind whipped at his little house. When it was finally safe to venture outside at dawn the 60-year-old...

  • Posted October 14, 2016