Saturday, May 2, 2009

photos - may 1st - agricultural fair - part 2

One of the exhibits were haitian straw hats. They were for sale and could be bought.

Haiti has a lot of varieties of tropical plants. Haiti used to be the Pearl of the Antilles!

Here is a sample of the types of foods grown here in Haiti

These are baby rice plants.

This is what the rice plant looks like after 100 days. Taiwan signed a contract with the Minister of Agriculture this week for a 15million US$ rice growing project in the Torbeck plain area. 3,000 hectares will be dedicated to production of rice. Haiti needs to be more self sufficient in rice. Reliance on expensive rice imports has really hurt the Haitian economy.




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