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Haiti - Social : Good news for farmers and the population 26/04/2012 09:10:17
This tripartite agreement Haiti-Venezuela-Argentina, concerning among other, a donation of equipment for improving the agricultural sector, equivalent to an amount of 15 million U.S. dollars including the technical assistance. The equipment provided by Venezuela include: a set of 100 4 x 4 tractors (80-100 HP) ; vertical tillage equipment ; plows teeth ; seeders, disc harrows ; sprayers ; fertilizer spreaders ; irrigation pumps 3 and 4 inches to exploit small water points ; submersible pumps, equipment for drip irrigation ; water tanks; 10.000 wheelbarrows ; 20.000 set of farming tools ; spare parts for maintenance and repair of machinery and silos to store crops and seeds (collective and family) will also be distributed to the Haitian authorities to encourage domestic production. Field visits and regular exchanges will be organized between the Ministry of Agriculture, experts from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) of Argentina and his Venezuelan counterpart to ensure the training and the adequacy of these equipment to the real needs of Haiti's agricultural development, while establishing a state agency in charge of research and agricultural extension. The signing of this agreement, conducted in the presence of the Ambassador of Argentina to Venezuela, Carlos Cheppi, of technicians from Argentina, Secretary of State for Literacy, of the Secretary of State for Literacy, Ms. Milaine Alexandre, and of Director General of the National Office of Identification (ONI), Jean-Baptiste Saint-Cyr, also addresses the capacity of the ONI throughout a project of identification whose main objectives are : to create a reliable database of all citizens; modernize the existing system; rehabilitate the regional physical structures; interconnect offices between them and the central office; work to the ratification of the law framework for the integration of the state civil within the ONI; equipping the ONI of modern equipment of greater capacity; create eight thousand direct jobs and facilitate the other partner institutions to access information that may be useful in the context of their specific mission. The literacy component part of this agreement will consist to literate 600,000 people through the project "Wi mwen kapab" and 400,000 others through the "'alphaprésentiel" based on the reality of each community. The Chancellor Lamothe believes that the strengthening of South-South cooperation can contributing to the sustainable development of Haiti and, in this sense, is committed to increase its efforts to reposition the country as a partner of choice for sister states in the region. HL/ HaitiLibre
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