Baseline Study on the Fight Against the Coffee Berry Borer at Baptiste
- The September 2011 baseline study reviews prior coffee berry borer control work at Baptiste and identifies strengths and limits for future DEFI activities.
- Methods combine a review of activity reports, a random survey of 100 producers and restitution meetings with producer assemblies.
- The report describes the spread of Hypothenemus hampei from detection in Haiti in the late 1990s to the Baptiste coffee basin, where it affected coffee quality and producer income.
- Initial infestation at Baptiste was about 40 percent, while integrated-control trial plots reached lower levels around 9 to 12 percent.
- The study records awareness, training, mass trapping, artisanal trap testing and establishment of a parasitoid-production laboratory as key achievements.
- Recommendations call for improving the laboratory, measuring infestation by zone, continuing trap evaluation, training farmers and technicians, and linking borer control with coffee quality, remunerative markets and cooperative functioning.
Produced by the Institut de Consultation d'Évaluation et de Formation pour le Développement Agricole under MARNDR's Programme de Développement des Filières Économiques Rurales (DEFI) and dated September 2011, this establishes the starting situation for the campaign against the coffee berry borer at Baptiste. It sets out antecedents, purpose and methodology, gives an identity card for the pest, and then analyzes the actors involved in the fight against it at Baptiste: MARNDR with IICA, ICEF-DA itself, and other participants. It is the first of three DEFI studies on the Baptiste borer campaign held here, followed by the 2012 impact assessment and the 2014 socio-economic adaptability study, which together document one pest-control intervention from baseline to evaluation.
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, 2011, Baseline Study on the Fight Against the Coffee Berry Borer at Baptiste, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cafe-Etude_de_depart_sur_la_lutte_contre_le_scolyte.pdf