The executive director of the Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Proconsumidor), Eddy Alcántara, has been speaking about the reasons for the shortages of some products in the Dominican Republic, depending on the year’s season, as is the case with bananas. He stated: “Every year, there is a season in which bananas are produced in smaller quantities, which is when the temperature is very cold. From November to March, there are fewer units per plantation, and they are also much smaller.”
“I was asked in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture, when do you think the banana issue is going to normalize? And I told them: it is normal for it to be in the month of March. A banana could have cost a hundred pesos here, (but) the government intervened, and the most it affected was 55 in the most difficult times,” said the head of Proconsumidor.
Alcántara also highlighted the measures of the government of President Luis Abinader in the face of internal and external factors that affect the prices of the leading products of a basic food basket.
In the last 20 years (2002-2022), bananas were the agricultural product that experienced the most significant increase in productivity, according to a publication by the Regional Centre for Sustainable Economic Strategies (Crees).
Source: dominicantoday.com