Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is issuing payments totaling $720,560 to nearly 400 farmers in Puerto Rico through the Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program for Geographically Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers.
Industrias Lecheras de Puerto Rico, or Indulac, announced Wednesday it has struck agreements to export more than 5 million quarts of excess milk produced on the island to the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean islands to prevent dumping and open new markets for local milk.
Puerto Rico Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas told lawmakers during budget hearings Monday that upon arriving to the agency in January, she uncovered an entity “in a precarious situation, with the lowest budget in its history, only 337 employees, no updated agricultural statistics, and no field level progress reports to evaluate and track work."
A Dow Jones/Factiva content provider since 2014
Subscribe to our Dollars & Sense podcast!
