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."
Members of the Puerto Rico Farm Bureau continued their campaign to press consumers to learn about the origin of the milk used in the dairy products they buy and make sure they are manufactured using local milk, saying they will save as much as 50 percent in doing so.
Puerto Rico dairy farmers took to the streets Tuesday to protest against the Suiza Dairy processing plant for its alleged use of imported milk for its products, including certain branded milk and other by-products.
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