Project Name：Fruit and Vegetable Production and Marketing Development Project (Haiti)

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Caribbean, Haiti

Project Description：

This project will increase fruit and vegetable production and marketing activities and establish best practices for the development of the local fruit and vegetable industry.

Overall, this project will:
1. Assist in fruit and vegetable production and marketing in Croix-des Bouquets on the eastern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, thereby providing Haitian people with a source of fresh, healthy and affordable produce.
2. Establish a seed and seedling management center in Jacmel and assist cooperating units to manage the facility and provide consultancy services; establish efficient supply chains to facilitate marketing activities and thereby improve farmers’ profits.
3. Complete project handover activities.

Project No：TCD-2010-C05

Implementation Start Date：2011-01-01

Implementation End Date：2012-12-31

Project Objectives：

1. Improve technical skills associated with cultivation and planting; establish five production and marketing groups to improve farmers’ profits and provide guidance to 70-80 farmers.
2. Assist cooperating units to manage a seed and seedling management center and produce 60,000 seedlings per year.
3. Establish a human resources implementation plan and provide training to three project stakeholders and six technicians from cooperating units.
4. Complete project handover activities.

Executing Agency：

Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Development (MARNDR) (Republic of Haiti) /  Federation of Native Coffee Associations (FACN) (Republic of Haiti)

Implementation Arrangement：

Project Performance：The project is projected to improve output by 15 percent, or US$330,000, and increase incomes by 15 percent.

Mission：Taiwan Technical Mission in the Republic of Haiti