Haiti: Rice Value Chain Study
- The report studies Haiti's rice value chain for SYFAAH, covering production, transformation, marketing and finance.
- Rice had become a major staple, with national consumption increasingly supplied by imports.
- Domestic production is concentrated in irrigated areas, especially the Artibonite Valley, while many farms are microholdings under one hectare.
- Production costs are high because of inputs, labour and land rent, and net returns vary by land-access arrangement.
- The marketing chain includes producers, local sarah traders, larger collectors, millers, wholesalers and retailers, with credit relationships often tied to usurious rates.
- The report identifies weak milling performance, high broken-rice rates, limited institutional credit and working-capital constraints as key bottlenecks for the value chain.
Prepared by Groupe CJ-Consultants for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture under SYFAAH, the agricultural finance and insurance system run with MARNDR, and dated October 2012. At 72 pages it is the fuller of the pair of value-chain studies the same team produced for SYFAAH, the other covering bananas. The study characterizes the rice chain and the financing needs along it, which was the purpose of the SYFAAH diagnostics: to establish where agricultural credit and insurance products could viably be placed. It is contemporaneous with MARNDR's own national rice recovery program of September 2012 and with Oxfam America's rice policy proposal of July 2012, so the three read together give the state of rice policy thinking in that single year.
How to cite
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); SYFAAH; Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR); CJ-Consultants, 2012, Haiti: Rice Value Chain Study, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CJ-RAPPORT-FINAL-ETUDE-DE-LA-FILIERE-RIZ-IICA.pdf