The Sentinel has learned that the ban set by Haitian officials on Dominican poultry is more damaging because of a culmination of events and decisions by Dominican officials offering political patronage to their constituency typical of an election year. In December 2011, the Dominican Ministry of Agriculture granted import permits for the breeding of 65,000 farms and the following January another 10,000. That action of the then Minister Salvador Jimenez broke the precarious balance of the egg production subsector in poultry production. Right before the elections he gave another permit to import more than half a million fertile eggs. The agreement was signed by the two main producer organizations in the D.R.: The National Association of Egg Producers (ASOHUEVO) and Egg Producers Association of the Dominican Republic (APROHUEVORD), and the Director General of Livestock, Bolivar Toribio, and Conaprope Director, José Montero. According to the reports of the National Council of Production, in August 2011 the country had 71,000 breeding farms, the Jimenez decision virtually doubled the number to 146,000 without taking into account the days to come. To give you an idea of scandalous permitting, import planning for the remainder of the year is set for 50,000 breeding farm, about a third. [Read more]
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:06:56 +0000
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