By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director
I still remember looking at the farmers with hoes on their shoulders in the early morning hours, trying to get to their field to till the soil pending the first drop of rain to layer their first seeds. It is the begining of a new season. Today, with the help of many of you they are walking the oxen that will do ten times the labor for that day.
This is the rainy season so long awaited by so many. You see the drought is longer and the rainy season has shortened with the climatic events we are experiencing in Haiti. So it is even more important that the hoe is slowly being replaced by the oxen-pulled plow.
In advance of this season, we have added 13 plowers and 26 oxen to 4 organizations namely:
Union of Planters for the Development of Picot (UPLADEP)
Society for development of NIppes (SADN)
Peasant organization of Boula. (OPB)
Group of Women Miracle of faith (GWOFAMIL)
They together serve their membership of 379 (189 men and 148 women) and their communities. In all they will till 30 acres and offer plowing services to 166 farmers outside of their membership. SADN had a waiting list from the last season, a line of farmers who will multiply their acreage this year and be able to harvest in time and relatively more produce they would have expected doing all the tilling by hand.
We are adding acre by acre to the production of food in Haiti and meeting the need for local organically grown food in the rural areas and their local markets.
You have helped make it possible and we hope you will be able to continue building this sense of security and productivity with your valuable support!
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