Agricultural Sector Development Plan for the Haut Plateau Central, Volume 3: The Plan
- This volume is the final plan in a three-volume agricultural development dossier for the Haut Plateau Central.
- The plan is based on documentation, field observation, communal workshops and meetings with institutions, associations and organizations.
- It frames agriculture, tourism, mining and industrial free zones as growth sectors, with agriculture central to the Haut Plateau Central.
- The agricultural development axes are infrastructure, promising value chains, access to services, and institutional and organizational strengthening.
- The plan emphasizes roads, pre-conditioning centres, hydro-agricultural works, hillside reservoirs, electrification, fruit trees, livestock, staples, sugar cane, pigeon peas and peanuts.
- Irrigation investments are recommended only with cost-benefit analysis, watershed protection and permanent management structures.
Dated April 2004 and prepared by GARDEL for MARNDR under the Projet de Développement Rural du Centre et du Sud d'Haïti, this is volume 3 - the development plan - of the agricultural sector plan for the Haut Plateau Central. It opens by recalling the methodological elements behind it: making use of accumulated documentation, direct field observation, and meetings and working workshops with different sectors. It is the operative half of the pair whose diagnosis is volume 2, also held here.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR); GARDEL, 2004, Agricultural Sector Development Plan for the Haut Plateau Central, Volume 3: The Plan, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Gardel-Plan-Developpement-Haut-Plateau-Volume-3.doc