National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA) 2016-2021

The Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR) commissioned four Haitian consultants to write this plan after an evaluation of the 2010-2016 plan, which had budgeted about USD 791 million over six years. The evaluation concluded that the earlier plan was a good tool that had not been well used, and recommended involving technical staff and field staff, tying public investment programs to the plan, setting up a monitoring and evaluation system and strengthening the Studies and Programming Unit (UEP). The new plan is dated November 2016, after Hurricane Matthew, and notes lower budget support and aid than after the 2010 earthquake.

The situation analysis gives agriculture's share of national employment as 68 percent. It counts 975,500 farms averaging 0.9 hectare, says only 7 percent of cultivated land is irrigated, and puts post-harvest losses at about 30 percent. Land productivity is about USD 563 per hectare and labor productivity USD 200 per worker. The text gives agriculture's share of GDP as 22 percent and its table gives 20.2 percent. The agricultural budget for 2015-2016 was about 11 billion gourdes, or 9.7 percent of the national budget, and donors dominate public investment in the sector.

The plan has three axes: agricultural infrastructure and watershed management, crop, livestock and fishery production, and public agricultural services with institutional strengthening. Investment is concentrated in zones around the country's five main water towers and the alluvial plains below them. Table 3 sets the need at USD 796.3 million, led by irrigation and drainage (USD 283.5 million) and watershed management (USD 140.7 million). The Government is expected to provide 22 percent, donors 19 percent and the private sector 5 percent; the remaining 53 percent, USD 426 million, is still to be found. The cost-benefit analysis gives an internal rate of return of 49 percent over 15 years and a net present value above USD 709 million at a 12 percent discount rate; the rate falls to 22 percent if benefits are 50 percent lower and to 9 percent if they are 70 percent lower. The last chapters cover implementation mechanisms, coordination, monitoring indicators and a resource mobilization strategy.