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Santo Domingo.- National milk production could be affected by the delay of more than ten months in the payment of economic compensations to a group of agricultural professionals who work for the General Directorate of Livestock (DIGEGA) in tasks of the Megaleche program, attached to the state institution.
This was warned by a group of 18 veterinary and agronomy professionals who work for that governmental institution, who for ten months have not received the economic compensation of 11,300 pesos monthly each, while they incur expenses and see their own means of transportation deteriorate and devalue.
The situation is beginning to affect dozens of producers in the Megaleche Program, who are no longer receiving the technical advice they need in a timely manner to maintain the dairy production standards planned by the institution itself.
The general delay already amounts to 2 million 034 thousand pesos, which derive from the multiplication of 11 thousand 300 pesos by ten months for each of the 18 affected technicians, explain the experts in milk production in a note-complaint.
"We urge the DIGEGA authorities to fulfill the commitment of timely payment to the agricultural technicians of the Megaleche Program, because that represents supporting national dairy production and thus assuming the role of guarantor of that component of food security for Dominicans.
