The fires registered in the area of Peravia have affected the most important mango cultivation project in the Dominican Republic, located in the Villa Fundación community, reducing to ashes and firewood a plantation of about 10,000 trees, according to the newspaper Listín Diario.
This project of agrarian reform, which has 264 hectares planted with different varieties of mangoes, has been in operation since 2001. It was an initiative of the then president, Hipólito Mejía, who divided the area into plots of 1.8 hectares for 149 producers of this community and other surrounding towns.
Then, Danilo Medina converted this agrarian reform program into cooperatives, with the same producers. Starting in 2013, the government allocated millions of pesos to cover debts, irrigation systems, plant replenishment, and a solar panels system to take water to these properties.
“The fire decimated almost 80% of the plants in this vast agricultural field,” the newspaper stated.
Source: listindiario.com