How the South America conflict benefit or not DR!?

[JOKL]

With Venezuela and Ecuador closing their borders and disrupting the commerce with Colombia, DR has a chance to sell goods to Venezuela and Ecuador more easily( in case that DR have something to sell!).

I red the DR have a lot of rice from this spring crop, and having problems with the chicken meat and eggs, they have an opportunity to supply Venezuela and Ecuador with some agricultural things.

[bob saunders]

Dominicans eat more rice than they grow, having to import some. Yes there is a market for chickens and eggs in Chavez Boilvarian empire as his policies are proving to be a disaster.

[aegap]

And beans. Don't forget the beans.

[fightfish]

With Venezuela nprmally importing food products from Colombai, perhaps the DR can ship more products to market. However, there are severe shortages of eggs, chicken and milk in Caracas due to Chavez´national pricing controls, which effectively took the profit out of the food producers, causing many to close up shop(duh). In a city of millions like Caracas, it is difficult to find milk. Maybe foreign food products like those produced in the DR will be able to fill the void, as foreign producers aren´t under the same Bolivarian rules as those inside Venezuela.

[Texas Bill]

Your ideas of shipping foodstuffs to other countries are simply without foundation. The productive capacity of such foods are not within thecapability of the DR, which has a problem of producing enough to feed it's own population with even the basics of a sustainable diet. Beans, rice, plantains, batatas and thelike are in very short supply due to the interruptive forces of the recent rains and floods produced by seasonal storms of a greater magnitude than normal.
Then there is themovement to introduce crops which will support theproduction of ethanol to the detriment of food production.
There must be a balance between these efforts in order to achieve therequirements of a well fed population, ethanol production and export of the EXCESS PRODUCTION of any foodstuffs to other countrys.
I only hope that the element of "tunnel vision" doesn't take hold within this and future Administations in this regard. If it does, the DR will find itself IMPORTING it's "daily bread" for local consumption.
Remember, there is only so many hectares of arable land available on this side of the island that can be used for products necessary to sustain equitable nutrition within the population.
Think about it and act accordingly.

Texas Bill

[aegap]

TX, please ask Goya how much of the beans and other food stuff they sell abroad is grown and packaged in DR..

[Texas Bill]

Without asking, I would imagine that not very much, since Goya Foods, Inc. is based in Secaucus, NJ. There is presently an over abundance of peas, beans, corn, etc. being produced in the States without having to import such in large quantities for canning and/or dehumidifying (drying) for reshipment back to the DR, or any other point of origin.
I do find it very significant that Goya does include around 14oz of product per 15.5oz of weight per can as opposed to an average of 9oz of product per 15.5oz can produced by Dominican canneries. Now, which organizations give the most value and quality per unit of production, US or Dominican, considering that the prices are nearly the same per unit?
But then, we're not so very concerned that Dominicans are being ripped off by their own manufacturers, are we?? HUH??
In addition, I fail to recognize what you posted as having anything to do with what I posted.
I merely pointed out that management of the available arable land was of the utmost importance to prevent overproduction of that from which the ethanol would be produced. Do you have an argument about that aspect of thepotential of removing land from food production to the production of cane for ethanol, for instance?

Texas Bill

[Chirimoya]

Although Goya is a US-based company, they do have a plant here on the Santo Domingo-San Cristobal highway, presumably for processing local produce.

[aegap]

In fact, I believe their food processing plant in San Francisco de Macoris largest or second largest food processing plant in the world. They process their Cibao-grown products there.

I just came from one of my local grocery store - a humongous Giant Food. In the 'ethinic food section.' Right beside a bunch of non-taxed NAFTA product from Mexico I saw the the following Goya product with the label "product of the Dominican Republic": Goya's Green Pigeon Peas Premium, Goya's Canned Coconut Milk, Goya's Red Beans. Also, Goya's Passion Fruit Juice, and pretty much all the other Goya branded tropical juices.

TX, go to the FDA website and you may be shock about how much packaged vegetables, fresh produce and other food stuff is imported from the DR and to the United States. And I'm talking about non-'ethnic' food stuff. There are plenty of Dominican 'ethnic' food stuff that wouldn't well in the U.S., but would do great in Venezuela. There are plenty of Dominican food stuff DR can't sell much of in the United States because of over saturation of the market that may sell well in Venezuela with a favorable tariff there.

[Texas Bill]

Then all the more reason to castigate companies such as JaJa, Victorino andothers for continuing to rip-off Dominicans and not compete with Goya in the area of Quality and equal product in their canned products. The corn is the only product where the ingredients aren't half water.
Look at the labels on these products and decide for yourselves. Better yet, buy several cans and compare the water content (the soup) with the Goya Products.

Stop blindly supporting companies that cheat you own people, for crying out loud. Be honest in your assessments of Dominican manufacturers an quit supporting them just because they're Dominican.

Texas Bill