Agricultural Extension Plan 2025-2035
- Measures the communication channels extension has to use rather than assuming them: among 1,374 farmers surveyed, telephone penetration is 89 percent, smartphones 23 percent and internet access 15 percent, with radio at 43 percent and television at 23 percent.
- Costs the full ten years at 3,010,000 US dollars, with annual lines from 407,000 and 421,000 down to 228,000, and states the budget's purpose as constituting a team rather than funding scattered activities.
- Is the second generation of the extension master plan, prepared after a stocktaking of the first plan's implementation, so it is a revision informed by measured performance.
- Cites an implementation rate of 30 percent for the earlier period despite financial means having been available, which locates the constraint in execution rather than in funding.
- Is financed through PITAG with IDB, World Bank, GAFSP and Haitian government funds, which is the arrangement that determines whose reporting requirements it answers to.
- Frames its object as orienting and strengthening extension activities and structures to improve effectiveness and increase development impact, addressing the constraints on agriculture's functioning rather than proposing new production targets.
MARNDR's ten-year agricultural extension plan, finalized in December 2024 and covering 2025 to 2035. It is the second generation of the extension master plan, prepared after a stocktaking of how the first was implemented, and financed through PITAG with IDB, World Bank, GAFSP and Haitian government funding.
Extension is the channel through which research and technique reach smallholders, so the plan's diagnosis is about reach rather than content. A survey of 1,374 farmers found telephone penetration at 89 percent, smartphones at 23 percent and internet access at 15 percent, with radio at 43 percent and television at 23 percent. Those figures are what justify mass media and voice channels over digital ones for the next decade, and they are the kind of measurement extension plans usually assert rather than collect.
The plan is costed over its full term at 3,010,000 US dollars, built up year by year from 407,000 and 421,000 in the early years down to 228,000 in the leanest, and its purpose is stated as constituting a team rather than funding activities in isolation. The minister's foreword frames it as addressing the constraints on the functioning and development of agriculture through measures to orient and strengthen extension activities and structures, in order to improve effectiveness and increase the sector's development impact.
How to cite
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR), 2024, Agricultural Extension Plan 2025-2035, http://agriculture.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PDVA-2025-2035.pdf