THE HAITIAN MANGO MARKET CHAIN :: RESULTS

USAID approves $25,000.00 for MarChe's Mango Development in Saint Michel de l'Attalaye.

Port Au Prince, Haiti July 29, 2009

Mangos represent the largest percentage of the tree population throughout Haiti. It was recently estimated by USAID that there are 10 million mango trees growing in Haiti. Howeever, population growth and increased economic pressures are leading to widespread deforestation throughout Haiti affecting low quality fruit trees which are cut down for fuel or wood products. Transforming low quality fruit trees by top-grafting is clearly a simple way of protecting the environment and improving the economic plight of the farmers by increasing their revenue.

L'Union des Coopératives pour le Développement de Saint Michel de l’Attalaye (UCOOPEDSA) is a 337- peasant association that hopes to create 20 direct jobs and 45 indirect jobs (with 70% of these jobs going to women) between 2009 and 2011, by creating their own “cell” of "Madame Francis" mango production and dehydrated fruits, in partnership with Delicious Fruits S.A. (DFSA).

DFSA currently produces and exports dried mangoes in the US. Following 7 years of hard research work, DFSA has succeeded in developing a unique “production cell” which will make dehydration of “"Madame Francis" mangoes a profit making activity, established with the assistance of rural cooperatives or peasant’s organizations such as UCOOPEDSA, in the areas where there is abundance in mangoes,

In order to double production and reduce energy costs, MarChE has awarded a US$25,000.00 USAID grant to DFSA. DFSA will increase plant capacity to process UCOOPEDSA's output and attend importers' trade shows. The total cost of the project is $53,242.86.

The USAID Market Chain Enhancement Project (MarChE) will stimulate and facilitate the vigorous development of competitive interrelated market chains in the Haitian agribusiness, handicrafts and tourism sectors. The Grants under Contract will have been fully disbursed to sustainable enterprises and organizations, attracting new sources of domestic and foreign investment to competitive sectors, and leveraging at least $5 million in private sector resources.

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