Haiti: Banana Value Chain Study
- The report analyzes Haiti's banana value chain for SYFAAH, including supply, demand, production systems, marketing and finance.
- Banana production had fallen sharply by the end of the 2000s while local demand remained high.
- Plantain production is concentrated in Arcahaie, Léogane and the Nord-Ouest, with marketing divided among plantain, green fig banana and Poban.
- Production costs are substantial, but producer margins can be high, especially for direct land operators.
- The chain relies heavily on women traders, local and urban sarah, retailers, transporters and informal cross-border flows.
- Finance remains limited because banks avoid agriculture, agricultural credit is a small share of bank portfolios and available products carry high monthly interest rates.
Prepared by Groupe CJ-Consultants for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture under SYFAAH - the Système de Financement et d'Assurances Agricoles en Haïti, run with MARNDR and financed by the Canadian government through CIDA - this consultation report characterizes the banana and plantain value chain in Haiti. It sets out the methodology used, then characterizes supply and demand for bananas, the features of Haitian banana production, and the organization of the chain from producer to market. The study belongs to the SYFAAH series of value-chain diagnostics commissioned to establish where agricultural credit and insurance products could viably be placed, and is a companion to the SYFAAH mango and priority-value-chain studies of the same period.
How to cite
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); SYFAAH; Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR); CJ-Consultants; Canadian Government, 2012, Haiti: Banana Value Chain Study, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Banane-RAPPORT-FINAL-ETUDE_DELA_FILIERE_BANANE_IICA26Novembre2012.pdf