Final Evaluation of the Technology Transfer to Farmers Project (PTTA)
- Reports the project exceeding its coverage targets while missing its income target: 35,530 farmers reached with improved technologies against 30,000 planned (18 percent more) and 15,700 hectares sown against 15,000, but the 30 percent gross margin gap between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries came out as plus 63 percent for agroforestry systems, plus 23 percent yields for vegetables and minus 7 percent on average for rice and groundnut.
- Records where the money and the beneficiaries actually went: the creole garden and agroforestry package types reached 73 percent of beneficiaries and mobilized 88 percent of resources, so the project's identity was set by two packages.
- Puts voucher delivery at 40,263 vouchers through the BNC with payment of 350 suppliers fully executed, which is the mechanism that made the transfer work.
- Records a satisfaction rate of 79 percent, below the 89 percent an earlier study found for Ouanaminthe and Capotille, with the highest rates at Saint-Raphaël and Milot (95 and 94 percent) and the lowest at Dondon and Borgne (63 and 68 percent).
- Carries the dissatisfied beneficiaries' reasons verbatim rather than aggregating them away: a project benefiting the suppliers, too many irregularities, no PTTA control over suppliers, coupons handed to suppliers never honoured, and poor-quality fertilizer.
- Finds fertilization levels lower than planned, and cites an earlier finding of a planting success rate of about 55 percent for the commune of Limbé, so the input reaching the field is not the same as the input financed.
- Quantifies input use per hectare for cocoa plots, including 631 seedlings, 522 banana suckers, 444 traditional yam plants, 67 miniset yam plants and 26 fifty-kilogram compost sacks, with a mean obtention rate of about 75 percent.
Prepared by consultant Roosevelt Saint-Dic and dated January 2018, this is the final evaluation of the Projet de Transfert de Technologies aux Agriculteurs, implemented by MARNDR under grant 2562/GR-HA from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program with the Inter-American Development Bank. PTTA was one of the larger technology-adoption operations in Haitian agriculture in the 2010s, and a final evaluation is where the question of whether adoption persisted beyond subsidized input supply gets answered. The corpus already holds a study of PTTA interns in the Nord-Est; this is the project-level assessment.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR); Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP); Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), 2018, Final Evaluation of the Technology Transfer to Farmers Project (PTTA), https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rapport-Final-Evaluation-Finale-PTTA-VF-24-Mars-18.pdf