(2017-03) Developing High-Altitude Coffee Production in Haiti
Summary — Paul Duret's March 2017 Table Verte presentation on high-altitude coffee development in Haiti. It reviews area, exports, cup tests, prices, agroecological zoning, constraints, target producers, priority investments, organization and profitability.
Key Findings
- Treats coffee as a highland territorial-development crop linking altitude, temperature, fertility, organization and markets.
- Documents the long fall in coffee area and exports before proposing targeted recovery investments.
- Raises biochar and fertility restoration as part of the production-system question.
Full Description
This deck treats coffee as a territorial development crop, not only as an export commodity. It starts from the long fall in coffee area and exports, then asks where arabica can still be grown, which producers should be prioritized, what arrangements and investments matter, and how fertility can be restored through systems such as biochar. The presentation is a useful post-Matthew recovery document because it looks past emergency replacement toward a production geography for the highlands, where altitude, temperature, soil fertility, organization and markets have to align.
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Pour le développement du
café en haute altitude en
Haïti
La Table verte du Grand Sud après Matthew: Etat des lieux et perspectives
30-31 mars 2017
Paul DURET
Présentation
Evolution de la superficie en café
Evolution export café Haïti
Comparaison de tests de café à la tasse
Evolution du prix du café “Arabica” conventionnel
Evolution des prix du café haïtien « gourmet »
La zonification de la culture du café arabica correspond à une température
annuelle moyenne entre 17°c et 23°c
Contraintes
Quelle catégorie d’exploitants privilégier ?
Quels aménagements prioriser?
Quelle organisation, dans quel territoire ?
Quel système de cultures choisir?
Comment assurer la restitution de la fertilité porc biochar?
Synthèse des investissements d’un projet pilote
Rentabilité
1958
135 000
ha
1998
98 000 ha
Evolution de la
superficie en
café
2009
20 000 ha
?
Evolution
export
café Haïti
TRIMESTRE
201
VOLUME 4
TRIMESTRE
VALEUR
201
VOLUME 5
VALEUR
JANVIER-MARS
35,079
155,652
JANVIER-MARS
22,690
213,583
AVRIL-JUIN
64,381
421,353
AVRIL-JUIN
30,066
1,092,203
JUILLET-SEPTEMBRE
52,498
385,731
JUILLET-SEPTEMBRE
47,481
182,272
OCTOBRE-DECEMBRE
3,473
30,642
OCTOBRE-DECEMBRE
1,265
10,871
155,431
993,378
TOTAL
101,502
1,498,929
TOTAL
Comparaison de tests de café à la tasse
Department
Zones/characteristics
Thiote/Marre Blanche CMIA
Sud’Est
Nord’Est
Centre
Grand Anse
Artibonite
Ouest
Dupuy/Thiote/CAPP
Colin
Belair
Mont-organise
CAB
COTRAS
COAL
COFIDERB
NCOCABA
Baptiste/Trasay/CODAT
Beaumont/Kassanet
Beaumont/Nan Canal
Belle-Anse
ODEB
Ferace
Des Barrieres
Fondikak
Marmelade/BILEE
Marmelade/ La Forestire
Marmelade/ Victoria
Marmelade/ Boche
Marmelade/ Satier
Marmelade/ Ba madame
Marmelade/ Tamize
Marmelade/ Dégune
Cahos/Fond Bleu
Cahos / Jacot
Fond Verrette/ Gros cheval
Altitude Score Aroma Acidity Body
(m)
1250
83
7
7
7
860
1000
950
600
900
1280
1050
1000
1100
550
950
700
76
86.5
71
71
75
85
83
80.5
75
80
79
82
75
75
83
80.5
82
81
78
84
79
84
80
83
85
79
84
87
5
7
7
7
5
7.5
7
6
5
6
6
7.5
5
5
7
6.5
7
7
7
7.5
7
7.5
6
7
7.5
6
7.5
7.5
5
7.5
6
6
5
7.5
6
6.5
5
6
6
7
5
5
7
6
6.5
7
6
7.5
6
7.5
6
7
7.5
6
7.5
7.5
5
7
5
5
5
6
7
6re
5
6
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
5
5
6
5
6
6
6
6
5
6
7
Taste
6
6
8
6
6
5
8
6
6
5
6
6
7
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
7
6
7
6
7
7
6
7
8
Evolution du prix du café “Arabica” conventionnel
Evolution des prix du café haïtien « gourmet »
La zonification
de la culture du
café
arabica
correspond
à
une température
annuelle
moyenne entre
17°c et 23°c
Contraintes
Le scolyte du café
La rouille du café
Quelle catégorie d’exploitants
privilégier ?
Le petit agriculteur
de subsistance ?
Le grand exploitant ?
L’agriculteur familial
/marchand ?
Quels aménagements prioriser?
Les Routes et des cantonniers: emplois
L’eau : emplois
Etablissements de Pépinières : emplois
Protection des sols : emplois
Quelle organisation, dans quel territoire ?
Les petites organisations avec peu de membres dans l’habitation
Quel système de
cultures choisir?
Comment assurer la restitution de la fertilité porc
biochar ?
Synthèse des investissements d’un projet pilote
Rubrique
Qté
Montant en $ US
Mutuelle de solidarité (1 000
agriculteurs)
40
Group
es
626
60,000
Régénération et pépinière
Training et nouvelle plantation
Tanks d’eau et routes
Atelier école pour traitement du
café
Total Partiel
400,000
151,120
579
450,000
290,000
Frais de Gestion
1,351,120
250,280
Grand total
1, 601,400
Rentabilité
OPERATING STATEMENT
year 1
Gross revenue
year 2
298,000
year 3
330,000
352,000
Gourmet
Coffee
33,000x$4
165,000
33,000x$ 5
165,000
49,000x$ 5
245,000
Coffee of
Quality
33,000x$ 3
99,000
49,000x$ 3.00
147,000
33,000x$ 3
99,000
Non
Exportable
Coffee
34,000x$1.00
34,000
18,000x$ 1
18,000
10,000
8,000
Operating cost
203,524
203,524
203,524
Brut Margin
94,476
126,476
148,476
Amortization
28250
28250
28,250
Net margin before financial cost
66,226
98,226
120,226
Total de profit
22.22%
29.76%
34.15%
Recall of the assumptions concerning the production
• Production capacity
The plant has the capacity to process 80.000 cherry pots per annum, while functioning for six
months (October to March).
• Technical ratios
The technical ratios to process the parched coffee into exportable coffee beans are the following:
At depulping, a coffee cherry pot gives 1, 25 pound parched coffee (high altitude);
At dehulling, one pound of parched coffee gives 20% of straw and 80% coffee beans; thus
a coffee cherry pot gives one pound of coffee beans and 0,25 pound of straw;
At sorting, one pound of raw coffee gives 25% of non exportable coffee beans in year 1,
16% in year 2, 14% in year 3 and as such for the next 10 years of the project;
With the selection, in year 1, 33,000 pounds will be exported like Gourmet coffee, 33,000
pounds will be exported like coffee of quality and 34,000 pounds sold locally as non
exportable coffee; in year 2, with the improvement of the conditions of preparation, 33,000
pounds will be exported like Gourmet coffee, 49,000 pounds like coffee of quality and
18,000 pounds sold locally ; in year 3, year of cruising when the improvement of quality is
at its higher point, coffee Gourmet 49,000 pounds, coffee of quality 33,000 pounds and non
exportable coffee 8,000 pounds.
Standard price
The central scenario is fixed on the following standard prices (in US dollars by commercial coffee
pound):
- Coffee gourmet: 5 US $ per pound,
- Coffee of quality: 3.50 US $ per pound
- Non exportable Coffee (national market): 1,50 US $ per pound.
• Annual sales
Taking into account the entire preceding assumptions, the coffee plant will have annual sales of
US$ 352,000.00 in year 3, of which US$344,000.00 are accounted for export and US$ 8,000.00 for
the national market. Annual exports relate to nearly 2 containers of Gourmet coffee and nearly
containers of coffee of quality.
FIN