The Social Investment Fund (FIS) hopes to invest $12 million in the development of 12,000 self-sustaining gardens and farms over the next four years. During his appearance before the National Assembly’s Budget Committee, the Director of the FIS, Giacomo Tamburrelli, reported that so far 15 farms have been set up throughout the country. Tamburrelli,...
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Representative Sergio Galvez will present a bill that would have the state cover the stomach reduction operation expenses for obese Panamanians. According to Gálvez, his idea is that obese people have access to this surgery, which is fairly expensive in Panama. The law would also sanction parents who contribute to the increased weight of...
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More and more farmers in Panama are cultivating culantro coyote. Maribel de Barrios, Regional Director for the Agriculture Market Institute in western Panama confirmed that culantro coyote cultivator numbers are indeed on the rise. Ministry of Agricultural Development figures show that more than 74 producers are growing more than 74 acres in Chepo, Chiriqui,...
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Panama has lifted restrictions on the import of Canadian breeding cattle and bovine genetics, according to dicovermoosejaw.com. This marks the removal of the last Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (better know as mad-cow) disease-related restrictions on Canada, and follows the signing of the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on May 14th. The agreement will eventually allow all Canadian...
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More than 500 workers of the Atlantic Banana Cooperative are breathing a little easier since the Bocas Fruit Company agreed to purchase at least 3,000 boxes of bananas for around $10,000, pending the signing of a permanent contract. The notice of the sale comes after a 45 days of heated negotiations during which period...
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