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- NEWS_POSTED_BY: Marcel Wah
- NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 20, 2015
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- Category : Haiti News
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Description :
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Demonstrating his commitment to improving agriculture in Haiti, on February 16, 2012, Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly toured local farmers’ associations to see first-hand the positive impact farmer training and new irrigation systems are having on Haitian farmers.
Photo: President Martelly with a group of Master Farmers at the Bas Boen CRDD.
- Location : Haiti
Overview
Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly and members of his cabinet recently visited farmer groups to see how members have improved irrigation systems, implemented new techniques, and reclaimed 10,000 hectares of previously unusable land.
In the rehabilitated section of the Riviere Grise, one local confederation of farmer associations has worked with the USAID Water Initiative for National Natural Environmental Resources (WINNER) project to develop a catchment—a structure used for collecting or draining water— as part of a new irrigation system for fields. The changes have already led to a successful bean harvest over an area of 2,000 hectares in the Cul-de-Sac corridor. To ensure the new system is maintained properly, a new association, the Association of River Irrigators of Rivière Grise (AIRG), was created.