President Luis Abinader said that one of the most determined bets that the Government is developing is the National agricultural production.
The president, when leading this Wednesday the start of rice harvest in Cotuí, Sánchez Ramírez province, said that the main food crop in the country is rice, and they depend directly on it between 250 and 300 thousand people involved in the whole process of immediate production.
“The Dominican Republic is considered a self-sufficient country in rice production, a staple crop in the food of the Dominican people, one of the highest consumption averages in Latin America,” the president said.
The president indicated that rice production covers all regions of the country, with 1.3 million acres of land planted throughout the country. “And this year we have achieved 20% more yield per task compared to the previous period of agricultural production.”
He said that a harvest of 7.6 million quintals is expected for this year, noting that this production will be greater than last year which for the spring meant about 6.8 million quintars collected in the spring. of this year.
“For the autumn harvest of this same year we hope to exceed by more than 700 thousand quintals the harvest of the same period of the previous year which reached 5,200,000 quintars to reach the 5.9 quintars collected in 2021,” has highlighted.
He stressed that rice production contributes about 30 billion pesos to the Dominican economy.
He indicated that in the country there are 32,000 rice producers generating more than 300,000 thousand direct jobs.