The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department has allocated $1 million to create an incentive program that would help mitigate the effects the drought has had on livestock in 17 municipalities of the island. Agriculture Secretary Carlos Flores-Ortega signed an order authorizing the Agricultural Enterprises Development Administration (ADEA, for its initials in Spanish,) to create a mitigation […]
Puerto Rico Agriculture Secretary Carlos Flores-Ortega said the agency should be ready in June to submit a draft of the proposed regulations for commercial production of industrial hemp on the island. In an interview on 1140, during the “En Una Hora” program — in which News is my Business participates — the government official said […]
The Agriculture Department recognized the best farmers of the year, one from each of the agency’s eight regions, during a ceremony marking the 60th celebration of “Puerto Rican Earth Week.” “You have been selected to meet the most self-sacrificing job. What you have accomplished has taken you many years. Good and difficult,” Agriculture Secretary Carlos […]