| Improved
Seeds
Quality Protein Maize
Tree Crops
Mango
Avocado
Citrus
Bamboo
Grafting
Vegetable & Tuber Crops
Tissue
Culture
and Minisetting
PROGRAM
GOALS
Economic
Gains
Nutritional
Benefits
Agricultural Education
Protection
of the Environment
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Agricultural
Education
ORE offers farmer producer groups extensive training and technical
assistance in propagation, production, post-harvest and marketing activities.
ORE is also developing an agricultural training farm, involving direct
production and marketing activities for selected crops. The production
and marketing of crops such as papaya, mangoes and hot peppers serve as
a dynamic demonstration platform for collaborating farmers. Direct experience
helps to focus on the constraints and develop practical solutions; successful
production and marketing of crops act as a catalyst for participating
farmers. The program focuses on improving production, grading and marketing
skills.
ORE
offers the following propagation courses and technical follow-up programs:
Propagation
Formal training sessions and on-site follow-up for grafting, minisetting
and seed production. | Production
Hands-on technical assistance in the field for
fruit trees, staple, tuber and vegetable crop production. |
Post-harvest
Training sessions and on-site
demonstration for picking, handling, grading and transportation. |
Marketing
Market linkage, inter-regional visits and assistance
with negotiations |
Propagation
- Fruit-tree propagation: nursery management, grafting courses.
- Rapid multiplication of tuber-crops and banana: cassava cuttings and
minisetts of yam tubers, and banana rhizomes.
- Staple crop seed production: training farmers to multiply commercial
seed, training technicians in breeding.
 |  |  | | Grafting
training sessions |
Grafting practice | Nursery
management training |
Production
- Tuber crop and grain production
- Commercial fruit production: establishment
of orchards and maintenance techniques
 |  |  | | Cassava
planting session |
Black bean production | Practical
field trials |
Post-harvest
- Fruit picking, handling, grading and transportation to market
- Vegetable
and tuber crop harvesting, cleaning, grading and transportation to market
- Grain storage: corn, beans and sorghum
- Promotion of crates for transportation
 |  |  | | Improved
fruit picking | Promoting
crates for transportation. | Papaya
grading session |
Marketing
- Inter-regional visits to successful production areas to promote awareness of
market opportunities.
- Linkage between producers, wholesalers and exporters,
and marketing assistance.
 |  |  | | Field
trip to successful mandarin plantation |
Mango exporters meet producers at ORE |
Producers visiting export
packing plant |
Since 1985, the Organization for the Rehabilitation of
the Environment
has developed and operated fruit tree grafting and crop improvement programs
in rural Haiti.
During those years several international agencies have generously provided
the funding that made it possible to maintain continuity of our development
projects. These include USAID, the European Union, the Canadian Embassy,
Inter-American Development Bank and other contributors.
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