Improved Seeds
Quality Protein Maize

Tree Crops
Mango
Avocado
Citrus
Bamboo
Grafting

Vegetable & Tuber Crops
Tissue Culture
and Minisetting

Economic Gains

Nutritional Benefits

Agricultural Education

Protection of the Environment

Although citrus is not an export crop in Haiti, citrus trees represent a large percentage of the tree population. The commercial varieties such as Mandarins, sweet oranges and tangelos provide an important source of income to farmers on the local market. In fact, studies have shown that tangerines such as the Mandarine de Jacmel are among the highest revenue crops in Haiti. We are focusing on rejuvenating existing mandarin orchards, diversifying production to include other high value citrus crops such as Clementine, and expanding production to different regions of the country.

Since 1985 ORE has worked with all the major commercial varieties of citrus. Several nurseries have been set up in southern Haiti, as well as an important top-grafting program of sour orange trees

ORE's program is designed to increase the number of commercial trees by nursery production of seedlings and by top-grafting the sour orange trees which grow in abundance throughout the countryside. ORE has selected the varieties which demonstrated the highest crops revenues: Clementine, Mandarine de Jacmel, Tangelo, and sweet oranges such as Washington Navel and Valencia.

ORE propagates thousands of Mandarins trees in the Jacmel area every year. They are one of the highest revenue crops in the country.

Citrus crops in the Caribbean are currently threatened by the regional expansion of the tristeza disease.
Although tristeza has not yet been officially identified as present in Haiti, the risk of its introduction and the widespread destruction of citrus cannot be discounted. As a result, ORE has begun the introduction of tristeza-resistant rootstock varieties, Swingle and Carrizo, with the objective of building up local supplies of resistant rootstock material in the country to protect against the regional expansion of this disease.