{"id":5975,"date":"2026-07-10T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:56:50","slug":"the-dominican-sugar-industry-is-cutting-back-on-its-reliance-on-foreign-labor-thanks-to-mechanization-reaching-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/the-dominican-sugar-industry-is-cutting-back-on-its-reliance-on-foreign-labor-thanks-to-mechanization-reaching-70\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dominican sugar industry is cutting back on its reliance on foreign labor thanks to mechanization reaching 70%."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The sugar industry in the Dominican Republic has gone through a major transformation over the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The sugar industry in the Dominican Republic has gone through a major transformation over the past five years. The mechanization of sugarcane harvesting has gone from just 1% to 70%, which has significantly increased productivity while greatly reducing the sector&#8217;s dependence on foreign labor, according to Dominican officials reported by Dominican Today in its July 9, 2026 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The sugar industry in the Dominican Republic has gone through a major transformation over the past five years. The mechanization of sugarcane harvesting has gone from just 1% to 70%, which has significantly increased productivity while greatly reducing the sector&#8217;s dependence on foreign labor, according to Dominican officials reported by Dominican Today in its July 9, 2026 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to statements from the authorities who attended the meeting, the development of mechanized harvesting has helped improve operational efficiency and eliminate the need for thousands of foreign workers who were previously employed in cutting sugarcane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Government and industry representatives emphasized that ongoing modernization strengthens the competitiveness and sustainability of one of the key productive sectors in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Dominican Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sugar industry in the Dominican Republic has gone through a major transformation over the past five years. The sugar industry in the Dominican Republic has gone through a major&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}