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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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Advantages of Grafting: Grafting fruit trees enables you to
clone the commercial qualities of a particular fruit variety on another
tree - whereas the quality of the fruit from trees grown from seed can
be highly variable. Also, grafted trees come into production much earlier
than trees grown from seeds - they usually bear fruit within 2-3 years,
whereas in the case of trees grown from seed you have to wait 5-10 years
before harvesting.
Production ORE uses two major grafting strategies
- nursery production and top-grafting trees in the field:
Nursery production makes it possible to produce large quantities
of seedlings in plastic bags and graft them with commercial varieties.
These seedlings are then distributed to farmers for planting in the field
and around the home. Top-grafting is the technique used to transform existing
low-quality fruit trees, by pruning them and then grafting them with commercial
varieties. This activity is implemented by teams of locally trained grafting
technicians who go from one locality to another, grafting the farmers'
trees. Top-worked trees generally bear fruit with the grafted varieties
during the next one or two seasons.
Grafting, which was little known in Haiti before
1985, has been extensively disseminated through training sessions.
Top-Grafting can be used to safeguard the environment:
Low quality trees, grown from discarded seeds, are found in
abundance throughout the countryside, but their fruit has little commercial
value. It is estimated that less than 25% of Haiti's fruit trees are of
acceptable commercial quality. Low quality trees are being systematically
cut down for sale as fuel and wood products with devastating effects on
the environment. Top-grafting these trees is a very effective method of
transforming them into commercial quality fruit trees. The high income
from the sale of the fruits, generally protects top-worked trees from
the widespread tree-cutting that has devastated Haiti's ecology. They
provide an important source of revenue and at the same time help to safeguard
the environment.
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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