220 years of freedom from the French. A bit slow on the draw wouldn’t you say?
How long before the youth gangs of Haiti see the agricultural success of these farmers,
and then invoke a 'transportation tax' for agricultural goods like the cartels did in Mexico with the avocado crops sold in the US ?
It reminds me of the "Insurance Fee" that the mob/ mafia charged inner city businesses to remain in business.
Nonetheless, it's a good start for the national economic recovery that Haiti needs for self-sufficiency.
The move from over ripened peppers into a pepper sauce was brilliant !
I wonder who is underwriting the so-called ‘entrepreneurs’ behind this effort.
I hope the guy washes his hands really well before he rubs his eyes.
All that changed the day a group of entrepreneurs
The key word. Haiti (or any poor country for that matter) needs more entrepreneurs/capitalists and fewer aid programs/NGOs/Hillary-types.
So....
someone told them that to grow crops you need water and fertilizer?
What’s the experiment? Actually cultivating the land? Planting seeds? Watering? Fertilizing?
If this horse hockey was true, why the hell are they all flying into Mexico and wading across the Rio Grande?
I support letting Haiti rot and serve as an example for what happens to blacks that kill whitey.
Technology or money? This has the feel of subsidized EV's....
their problems are all internal, the DR doesn’t seem to have their problems...
An experiment, like using fertilizer. Using dirt to grow food, instead of making cookies.
How soon before the Haitian government finds an excuse to seize the land?
Haitians stripped ever bit of plant life from a virtual tropical paradise. DR dow not have the same problems.
But...l Haiti needs to pull her own boot straps up and the foreign aid needs to stop, now. Every dollar of “aid” is a dollar a local Haitian capitalism can not create. Every pair of shoes is a pair of shoes a Haitian cobbler can not sell. Big Aid is killing that nation.
In Haiti, crops failed not just because of too little or too much rainfall, but also due to a lack of access to irrigation, even when water is available. Just across the border 45 minutes away in the Dominican Republic farmers are successful, Marcelin said, so the issue is not the availability of water. “The only thing is there is no investment on our side of the border to bring the water to the producers,” he said. (This is why farmers in the region have been constructing a controversial canal off the nearby Massacre River, which divides Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in hopes of exploiting the potential of the once-lush Marihaboux Plain.)
Crops need water. Who knew?
So does this mean that the 1000s that have illegally entered the US and have turned areas of Miami into the 3rd world, will decide to go back home?