The director of Listin Diario, Miguel Franjul, proposed to the representative sectors of the province mount silver the creation of an organism that articulates the production plans elaborated por those sectors of the community, as a successful formula to make their economic development viable.
Franjul made the approach when leading a meeting with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and Production, the Monte Plata Cattlemen’s Association, the Union of Medium and Small Flour Industrialists, sports leaders, businessmen, legislators, and the educational sector, among others.
The director of the Listín stated that It is urgent to specify the benefits that teamwork produces, to turn strengths into common goodas well as observe the formulas and mechanisms put in place by other provinces, to extrapolate their progress and development experiencestrying to contextualize their growth programs.
Franjul the also urged to establish an order of priorities of the projects that best suit the Monte Plata province, to start from this survey to prepare the strategic development plan.
He warned that it should be taken into account that the world changed after the latest events that have impacted the world economysuch as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.
“We can never lose sight of the fact that we are in the age of technology and that, to the extent possible, The peoples must systematize and computerize their actions, since, like a means of communication, any company can collapse due to non-observance of artificial intelligence or technological advances,” he said.
potentialities
In the meeting held at the Club de Ganaderos, the representatives of the Monte Plata province expressed their solidarity with Franjul’s proposalswhom they recognized as having become a solid ally of this province, through their guidance and by putting the pages of the media outlet they run at the service of this community.
Also They outlined the potentialities and strengths they have, as well as the main challenges facing this demarcation, made up of the municipalities of Monte Plata, Yamasá, Bayaguana, Sabana Grande de Boyá and Peralvillo.
They highlighted its great sports development, impressive attractions for ecotourism with a wide inventory of waterfalls, waterfalls, rivers, streams and mountains, its geographical location that allows it to border nine provinces, the Samaná highway that crosses it from south to north, its high rainfall, proximity to the tourist poles of Samaná, Atlantic coast, proximity to the Caucedo Multimodal Port and the Las Américas, Catey and Joaquín Balaguer airports.
The Monte Plata province is also a large producer of organic cacao, beef cattle and milk.is the largest producer of pineapple for export in the country to international markets such as Switzerland, Israel and the Caribbean islands.
Also, Coconut and tobacco are grown, honey, ginger, lemon and poultry are produced. However, they stated that the province has not been able to reach the level of development to which its inhabitants aspire, mainly due to the dispersion and inertia to achieve unity, preventing combat poverty and get out of the lag. From this meeting they promised to work as a team and achieve a point of affinity, to make the triangle of development that its inhabitants require a reality.
They also focused on education as part of their goals, through the installation of a higher technical institute to train young people, so that they can enter the labor market with a qualified workforce, supplying the trades that companies require and demand. and other productive sectors in the region.
Sectors present
The event was attended by the president of the Monte Plata Chamber of Commerce and Production, Ydal de los Santos, the president of the Cattlemen’s Association, Pablo Contreras, the president of the Chamber of Accounts, Janel Ramírez, senator Lenín Valdez, deputy Román de Jesús, and the regional director of Education, Buenaventura de la Cruz.
Attendees
Among those present at the meeting were also businessmen Raymundo Roy Uribe, Emil Trueb, Aladino Carrasco and César Villeta; the sports leaders Fausto Severino and Isaac Ogando, the provincial director of the Red Cross, Gidel Ramírez, the educator Francisco Beato, the political scientist José Bello, and the vice president of the Union of Medium and Small Flour Industrialists, Miguel Vásquez, among others provincial and municipal personalities.
Population
According to the last territorial ordering approved by Congress, the Monte Plata province is located in the Higüamo Region together with San Pedro de Macorís and Hato Mayor. It has a territory of about 2,642 square kilometers and its population exceeds 180,000 inhabitants.