The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department will distribute just over $2 million in incentives to low-income elderly citizens, and pregnant mothers and children who participate in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, to buy local fruits and vegetables. The new incentive may be used in the Family Markets that Agriculture carries out in conjunction with […]
The Puerto Rico Health Department announced the acquisition of two mobile units at a combined cost of $736,000 that will temporarily replace the WIC clinics that have been unable to reopen after being seriously affected by the earthquakes in the south. The 37-foot mobile clinics have areas for anthropometric measurements, breastfeeding, food demonstration, space to […]
The introduction of organic milk into the Puerto Rico market, stalled while the slow regulatory process runs its course, will help rather than hurt the local milk industry currently in a state of crisis due to excess production and declining sales, said SuperMax officials eager to add this product on supermarket shelves at the request of cancer patients.
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