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D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez announced the creation of a National Council for Food Security comprised of representatives from the private and public sector with the goal of confronting the threats inherent in the current global food crisis and to revive the country\u2019s agricultural sector. <\/P> …emphasized that the creation of the National Council for Food Security and the strategies put into effect in recent days, will place the agricultural sector among the country\u2019s priorities on the national agenda… Fern\u00e1ndez said that after the elections he will emit a decree along with the creation of this council, naming the designated members of the council and outlining a national strategy to be undertaken to guarantee food production to meet the quantities, quality and reasonable prices necessary to satisfy the national demand, according to a press release from the President\u2019s Office of Information, Press and Publicity. Although he gave assurances that the global food crisis will not have direct repercussions in the Dominican Republic, \u201cbecause this is a food-producing country,\u201d he further promised that his government will take all necessary measures to guarantee the continued production of food. The president emphasized that the creation of the National Council for Food Security and the strategies put into effect in recent days, will place the agricultural sector among the country\u2019s priorities on the national agenda, strengthening it through governmental policies. President Fern\u00e1ndez said the global food crisis will be transformed into an opportunity for the re-launching of the Dominican agricultural sector, adding that \u201cthe productive sectors should take advantage of this opportunity in that they will enjoy government support through technical and financial assistance as well as research support around seed development which will ultimately contribute to increasing quality and production.\u201d \u201cThis is an opportunity for the productive sector to be more competitive, self sufficient and produce high quality outcomes,\u201d said President Fern\u00e1ndez. He noted that the world food crisis that is forcing his government to take measures has a positive side. He pointed out that there have been considerable price reductions in 6 of the main food products of mass consumption. He said recent visits to the supermarket have confirmed this for him. Although he recognized that there has been a certain feeling of concern among the population, President Fern\u00e1ndez reiterated his guarantee that prices will continue to remain stable even after the elections. He repeated that there will be no crisis in the Dominican Republic especially taking into account that the country produces 80% of the goods and services it consumes. He admitted that the rising price of oil has generated uncertainty among the population but reported that, in recent days, there has been a drop in prices from $120 per barrel to $112 US dollars. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> National Council for Food Security to be Created Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez announced the creation of a National Council for Food Security comprised of representatives from the private and public sector with the goal of confronting the threats inherent in the current global food crisis and to revive the country\u2019s agricultural sector. …emphasized that the … Continue reading “National Council for Food Security to be Created”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: May 5, 2008 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"