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Venezuela Progressing Towards Food Independence
Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on
Sunday that the government has set targets for
exporting food to neighbor countries and is
progressing towards food independence.
During his weekly radio and television broadcast "Alo
Presidente," Chavez said Venezuela's cattle herd now
topped 12 million heads and is estimated to rise to
14 million by 2012.
Chavez hosted Sunday's show from the La Bandera farm
in southwestern state Tachira, a model socialist
dairy farm set up on land seized from drug
traffickers.
The Venezuelan government has seized 50 farms from
traffickers, equivalent to 12,000 hectares suitable
for livestock.
La Bandera now has 1,985 heads of cattle, up from
1,300 18 months ago; and produces 38 percent more
milk, the Venezuelan president said. |
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