Socio-Economic Adaptability of Integrated Coffee Berry Borer Control at Baptiste
- The May 2014 study assesses the socioeconomic adaptability of integrated coffee berry borer control at Baptiste.
- It links borer control to a local coffee economy where coffee occupies about 70 percent of cultivated land and old plantations are reported on about 70 percent of the coffee area.
- The report reviews BROCAP, INCAH and artisanal trapping experience and places trapping within an integrated method that also includes field sanitation and agronomic control.
- Infestation varies by locality, with Roche Plate, Baptiste and Totoye higher than Trasahaie and Louimé in the sampled text.
- Beneficiaries say they are ready to carry out trapping campaigns and report satisfactory field results, but lack resources for pruning, fertilization and other maintenance.
- Recommendations emphasize cooperative involvement, mutual-aid practices, communication strategy, continued ICEF-DA accompaniment, alternatives to olfactory diffusers, support for implementation and coffee regeneration.
Prepared by Marie Ardys Marcellus Jean Baptiste for the Institut de Consultation d'Évaluation et de Formation pour le Développement Agricole under MARNDR's DEFI program and dated May 2014, this study asks whether the integrated control methodology against the coffee berry borer is socio-economically adaptable to conditions at Baptiste - that is, whether producers can actually sustain the practice, including the borer traps the report illustrates. It is the last of the three DEFI documents on the Baptiste borer campaign, and the one that turns from technical effect to whether the method holds once project support ends.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR); Programme de Développement Économique des Filières Rurales (DEFI); ICEF-DA, 2014, Socio-Economic Adaptability of Integrated Coffee Berry Borer Control at Baptiste, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cafe-Adaptabilite_strategie_de_lute_contre_le_scolyte_a_Baptiste-_.pdf