Legislative Assembly
Discusses Food Plan
Costa Rica's Legislative
assembly on Thursday
started discussing the
2008 second
extraordinary budget of
¢30 billion Colones
(us$57.9 million
dollars) which includes
the money to finance the
Food National Plan.
The Food National Plan,
focusing on issues such
as increasing the
production of staples
like rice, reactivating
crop insurance and
providing better credit
conditions to food
producers, was among the
government's measures to
cope with the world
crisis of rising food
prices.
Half of the budget would
be used as food tokens
to 16,000 poor families
with children under 12,
and scholarships for
43,000 children.
The ministro de
Hacienda, Guillermo
Zuñiga, said that the
budget also included a
certain amount of money
for state universities
to handle salary
increases.
The country would also
seek to increase its
capacity of storing
grain.
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