Dominican government subsidizes bean seed production in San Juan

The Ministerio de Agricultura will provide 30 million pesos in subsidies to help farmers purchase bean seeds in the Valle de San Juan in the Dominican Republic.

The ministry will release 10,000 quintales of seeds for a planned planting of more than 120,000 tareas. Under the subsidy plan, the government will pay 3,000 pesos per quintal, while each producer pays the remaining 3,650 pesos of the 6,650 peso reference price.

This initiative aims to help small-scale producers access high-quality seeds at a lower cost to increase their profits. Farmers will use mechanized methods to plant the crops as part of the Programa Nacional de Mecanización Agrícola (Pronamec). The province of San Juan is the primary region for bean production in the country. The ministry urged local farmers to plant within the established deadlines to maximize the harvest.