Don't expect any famine to break out from it...
The divulged "devastation" by local growers is more focus on crops aimed for export than actual local consumption. The local availability of crops is not interrupted but prices have gone up since demand is on par to pre-flooding levels and supply is not there yet.
I must remind many of you that local crops, for local consumption are generally done in separated grounds and niches. Most of local consumed goods are "Burreados" to the city by merchants from the steep conucos and sembradios from the mountains, unlike the top quality export crops that are nursed in most of the affected valleys.
The recent change by Haitian authorities regarding the importation of Domican eggs and chickens, will however fill just perfect to over-supply the gap of crops that just became out of reach to the shallow pockets of low and middle class homes.
The local crops aimed to the DR consumers is not going to go tail spin anytime soon, but the export of crops that made the region's economy balance an stabilizing factor will created further shrinks to growth.
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