Agriculture Dept. grants $2M incentives to promote consumption of local harvests
September 8, 2021
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 ...
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Health Dept. buys 2 mobile clinics at $736K to reach earthquake-ravaged towns
December 2, 2020
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 ...
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WIC inclusion averts milk dumping; SuperMax seeks permit to sell organic variety
November 2, 2011
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 ...
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