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Haiti - Politic : Tour of President Martelly in Côtes-de-Fer 18/03/2013 10:06:30 Subsequently, the Head of State inaugurated a newly constructed bridge on the river Côtes-de-Fer, which is the gateway to the city, beginning of the Boulevard Gérard Martelly, father's name of the President of the Republic. The President Martelly also visited that same day, the National School of Côtes-de-Fer where the Fund of Economic and Social Assistance (FAES) conducted a distribution of food kit as part of program "Ede Pèp". During this meeting with several hundred cotiferois, the Head of State emphasized the need to achieve food self-sufficiency, one of the basic conditions of real development of the country. The President, accompanied of Jacques Thomas, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Felix Mimose, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister responsible for promoting the peasantry, Charles Jean-Jacques, Minister of Social Affairs and Senator Edwin Zenny went to Gris-Gris, one of the communal sections of Côtes-de-Fer, where he had a successful meeting with farmers of the area. An opportunity for the Head of State, to deliver to the farmers' associations a lot of agricultural material and 32 pumps for watering a thousand hectare of land. FAES took the opportunity to also make other distribution of food kits, still within the framework of the program "Ede Pèp". Sunday, the Head of State, proceeded to surrender a hundred kids, to about fifty families, an initiative that aims to encourage breeders and farmers, the main drivers of agricultural recovery. These beneficiaries will in turn give to other farmers participating in the program, the goats from the first litter. HL/ HaitiLibre
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