Haiti - Agriculture : Japan and the Dominican Republic will help Haitian farmers
Inocencio Garcia Javier, Dominican Deputy Minister of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD), César Dargam Espaillat, Deputy Minister of Foreign and Trade Negotiations, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIREX) and Ismael Cruz Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development signed an agreement for the implementation of the second phase of the "Project of Capacity Development of Agricultural and Forestry Techniques of Mountainous Areas of Haiti" (PROAMOH 2) with Akihiko Yamada, Resident Representative in the Dominican Republic of the International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Benito Ferreiras, he rector of the Technological University of Santiago (ISA).
This tripartite cooperation project Japan-Dominican Republic-Haiti aims to enable technicians and Haitian farmers, to improve their capacity to agricultural and forestry production in the mountainous areas of Haiti.
Recall that it was at the request of the Dominican Government that, in 2008, Japan decided to adopt two years after the triangular cooperation policy with the Dominican Republic to support Haiti. Thus in October 2010, as part of the Japanese cooperation started the project PROAMOH 1, which was completed in 2013. Under this program 99 Haitian agricultural and forestry technicians have received training of trainer and have transferred their knowledge to 500 other specialists from other regions of Haiti.
The Government of Haiti will soon sign the documents of PROAMOH 2, whose duration has been increased to four years to have the time necessary to carry out the required training and running.
Under PROAMOH 2, Haitian technicians will receive a water management training, soil, pest control technologies, the process of growing vegetables, beekeeping, aquaculture, among others... Furthermore, this second stage will include the creation of a platform for sharing good practices.
