(2011-10) General Agricultural Census (RGA): Provisional Results for the Artibonite Department

Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR) • 2011 • 209 pages

Summary — MARNDR provisional General Agricultural Census results for Haiti's Artibonite department, reporting 163,588 farm holdings (15.5% of the national total) covering 122,040.8 carreaux of used agricultural area, with tenure, irrigation, crops, and livestock indicators.

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Key Findings

Of the 1,053,107 agricultural holdings enumerated nationally, 163,588 (15.5%) are in the Artibonite, covering a used agricultural area (SAU) of 122,040.8 carreaux, an average of 0.75 carreaux per holding. About 99% of holdings are managed directly by their operators. Holdings are largely small: 75.6% of operators work less than 1 carreau, accounting for 48.1% of the department's SAU. Seven communes exceed 10,000 holdings, led by Dessalines (23,655), Saint-Marc (20,186) and Saint-Michel de l'Attalaye (19,848), while Grande Saline recorded the fewest at 2,667.

Full Description

This report presents the provisional results of the farm-holding survey of Haiti's General Agricultural Census (RGA, reference campaign 2008-2009) for the Artibonite department, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR) with support from the FAO and the European Union. It is the fourth in a department-by-department series drawn from an exhaustive national enumeration of 1,053,107 agricultural holdings. Of that national total, 163,588 holdings, or 15.5%, are located in the Artibonite, covering a used agricultural area (SAU) of 122,040.8 carreaux, an average of 0.75 carreaux per holding; 99% of holdings are managed directly by their operators. Holdings are largely small: 75.6% work less than 1 carreau. The report covers agricultural holdings and operators, land tenure and modes of exploitation, irrigation, land use, livestock, labour, equipment and materials, credit, extension advisory services, and constraints on holding development, with a methodological first part and detailed statistical annexes, including communal-level tables and a crop nomenclature.

Topics

Geography

Time Coverage

2008 — 2009

Keywords

RGA, agricultural census, MARNDR, Artibonite, agricultural holdings, superficie agricole utilisée, land tenure, irrigation, livestock, provisional results, Haiti agriculture, series:marndr-rga

Entities

MARNDR, RGA, Artibonite, FAO, Union Européenne, IHSI, CNIGS, Trésor Public

Notes

RGA provisional results, MARNDR; ayitistats wave C