After a four month hiatus, Frit Arte reopened this weekend, bringing back all of its creativity and Panama City’s only full Thai food menu. Maria Consuelo Orozco, originally from Baranquilla on Colombia’s Northern Atlantic Coast, opened Frit Arte in 2009 as an art café, “where people can feel at home,” she says. Frit Arte...
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The Ministry of Agriculture and producers are working on new genes for some of the buffalos in the Colon Province. “The idea is to improve the genetic line of the Coclesito buffalo, because since the 70s, it has not been possible to introduce new genes to avoid inbreeding problems,” said Romel Rosas, Coordinator of...
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Milk producers and dairy companies have reached an agreement the Ministry of Agricultural Development to establish short, medium and long-term political strategy for Panama’s dairy sector. A newly-created National Milk Commission will search out ways to raise milk awareness and consumption, as well as assess milk quotas and tariffs. The president of the Association of...
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Tilapia farms are beginning to thrive in the mountainous regions of Capira, as are the communities that are aquaculturing the fish, La Prensa reports. Production, backed by Panama’s Aquatic Resources Authority, started in 2009. Now, just a year later, various communities have moved into commercial production and the establishment of packing plants is even...
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Ñame producers of the Ocu district are asking the government to compensate them for the loss of 100 million quintals (or 100 pound units a.k.a. a hundredweight) of the root valued at approximately one million dollars. Wilfredo Pimentel, President of Roots and Tubers Producers Association of Ocu, recognized that the recession in the United States,...
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