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SANTO DOMINGO, RD. – The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) described as mistaken the agricultural policy implemented by the Government of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), considering that it is leading thousands of producers to bankruptcy and generating a sustained increase in the prices of basic products.
According to the opposition organization, Dominican families face increasing difficulties each day in accessing essential foods like rice, the price of which, they claim, now reaches 48 pesos per pound due to uncontrolled mass imports.
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Chicken meat, another widely consumed product, was cited by the PLD as an example of the deterioration in the sector, having gone from 58 pesos per pound in 2019 to 93.75 pesos in 2025. The Secretariat of Agriculture of the opposition party maintained that the current situation affects not only the producers, who see their profitability compromised, but also the consumers who must assume increasingly higher prices. Faced with this situation, the PLD raised the need for the Government to coordinate with poultry farmers the incubation of large quantities of fertile eggs to guarantee the production of chicken and, at the same time, adopt measures to control the massive imports of rice.
