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Last week still another attempt was on the verge of being plowed under in a contentious dispute with an Israeli-directed experimental farm. The commonwealth's secretary of agriculture Antonio Gonzalez Chapel has cut off the government's credit line for April-Agro Industries Inc., which is $33 million in debt, and announced that the commonwealth will handle the farm's winter harvest next month. April-Agro has refused to surrender, appealing to Governor Rafael Hernández-Col?...
...government withdrew its support after the high-cost farm project had defaulted on its loans and seemed to have little prospect of ever reaching solvency. Critics charged that instead of concentrating on popular products like honeydew melons, peppers and tomatoes, April-Agro grew too many other crops, including plantains and cabbage. Demel counters that he has created a new export market for Puerto Rican produce. In 1979-80, when April-Agro began, the island grew only about 3,600 tons of tomatoes a year, valued at just $1.4 million; hardly any of the crop was fit for export...
...from almost total dependence on sugar cane toward a more diversified industrial base in electronics and light manufacturing. Some observers believe that the island's agriculture is still wedded psychologically to sugar and is not truly interested in any other crop. Says Fernando Santiago, operator of a 600-acre farm in Santa Isabel: "Agriculture doesn't believe in vegetables...
...Demel and his new methods. Claridad, official newspaper of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Socialist Party, refers to Demel as the "Jew Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernández-Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover of April-Agro. If that happens, Demel and his supporters believe, Puerto...
...good and bad news. The Sudanese needed 1.4 million tons of food aid this year, but a bumper harvest in the country's fertile east has halved the requirements for 1986. In the country's inaccessible western provinces of Darfur and Kordofan, however, famine still afflicts hundreds of thousands. Farm families ate their seed and slaughtered their oxen just to stay alive. When the rains came, they had nothing to plant. Because roads in the area were washed out by the summer rains, relief groups had to organize costly flights to reach the famine victims...