Abinader announces support for producers affected by rains in the Northwest Line

Montecristi.- President Luis Abinader held a meeting this Sunday with rice and banana producers and other items from the provinces Dajabón, Montecristi and Valverde, to whom he promised Government support to face the situation left by the rains that in the last 40 days affected the entire national territory.

The president ordered that all government institutions support those affected with maintenance of local roads and credits to continue production. Regarding the floods caused by the Yaque del Norte River in the municipality Castañuelas, he announced that they are analyzing between dredging and the construction of a new bridge on 30 de Mayo Avenue over the tributary, to avoid future damage from the overflow of the river current in the demarcation. He insisted that the priority is to work so that the communities and farms in the area are not flooded.

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The recent floods, as a consequence of the latest rains fallen in a large part of the country, affected about 2,000 tasks of rice and banana in the Northwest Line, mainly to the municipal district Palo Verde. Prior to the meeting, the Head of State took an aerial tour to observe the situation and verify the reservoirs of the dams Guayubín, Hatillo, Monción and Taveras, in the company of the director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi), Olmedo Caba, and the senator for the province of Espaillat, Carlos Gómez. Regarding that particular point, he highlighted the management given by the Indrhi and the Dominican Hydroelectric Generation Company (Egehid), which, he said, avoided major floods and increased electricity generation. “We have managed the dams very well, which are generating more electricity. We went from 4 to 6 hours of electricity generation in the case of the generating dams and the water has also been discharged prudently, in such a way that it does not cause major damage,” expressed the ruler. After contacting the situation of the bridge in Castañuelas, the president approached a group of municipal officials who raised several concerns to which he promised to give the follow-up and support necessary for their solution. The meeting was attended by Governor Leissa Cruz; Senator Bernado Alemán; Johanny Martínez and Rosendy Polanco, and Mayors Jesús Jerez, of San Fernando; Gregorio Reyes, of Palo Verde; Winston Álvarez, of Castañuelas; César Molina, of Guyubín, and Virgilio Cruz, of Las Matas de Santa Cruz.

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Also, Alfonso Antonio Rodríguez Toribio and Leopoldo Pascal Suero, from the Regional Agriculture; Aquilino Castillo, from the Rice Growers Association; Julio César, from the La Cruz de Manzanillo Project; Miguel Ángel Sabala, Environment Environment; Narciso Castillo and Marcis José Rodríguez, Regional Bioarroz; the councilman Sandy Muñoz; as well as representatives of the Northwest Irrigation Board.