A high-level delegation representing Chile’s Irrigation and Drainage Association (Agryd) has wrapped up a four-day official working tour of the Dominican Republic, centered on unlocking mutually beneficial commercial partnerships, elevating technical collaboration frameworks, and sharing industry-leading expertise to advance widespread modernization of the Caribbean nation’s agricultural ecosystem.
Over the course of the mission, Chilean delegation members held a series of structured high-level meetings with senior leadership from key Dominican public sector bodies, including the National Irrigation Technology Agency (TNR), the Ministry of Agriculture, and the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI). The bilateral dialogues covered a broad range of priority topics spanning cutting-edge irrigation deployment, streamlined agricultural policy design, accessible financing mechanisms, cross-border agri-trade pathways, and targeted foreign investment openings in the Dominican agricultural space.
Beyond public sector engagements, the Chilean group also connected with leading private and non-profit Dominican agricultural stakeholders, such as the Dominican Agribusiness Board (JAD), the state-owned Agricultural Bank (Bagrícola), and the Institute for Cooperative Development and Credit (Idecoop). During these sessions, participants explored the feasibility of long-term strategic alliances, structured knowledge-sharing programs for irrigation technology, and the potential negotiation of a partial bilateral trade agreement tailored to agri-sector priorities between Chile and the Dominican Republic.
The delegation also traveled outside the capital to San Juan province, where they conducted on-site field visits to review locally implemented technified irrigation systems in operation, before holding targeted discussions with TNR-vetted commercial suppliers to map out joint technical and commercial cooperation projects focused on the adoption of high-efficiency pressurized irrigation solutions.
TNR Executive Director Claudio Caamaño Vélez emphasized that the carefully curated mission delivered a tailored, first-hand experience for Chilean agricultural producers, technical specialists, and prospective investors to gain granular insight into under-explored investment and innovation pipelines across the Dominican Republic’s fast-growing agri-tech landscape. Agryd Executive Director José Miguel Morán publicly lauded the Dominican government’s ongoing policy push to overhaul national irrigation infrastructure, noting that these targeted modernization efforts are poised to drive significant gains in on-farm productivity while accelerating progress toward more ecologically sustainable agricultural operations.
This cross-border mission is formally integrated into TNR’s broader multi-year international cooperation strategy, which is designed to strengthen domestic institutional technical capacity, accelerate the rollout of water-smart agricultural innovation, and build durable cross-national partnerships centered on optimized water resource use and low-carbon, sustainable agricultural production. Additional local coverage of this development is available via DominicanScope.
Chile and Dominican Republic explore irrigation and agricultural cooperation
