Provisional Results of the General Census of Agriculture (RGA) for the Nippes Department
- The department's holdings represent 4.2 percent of the country's 1,053,107 farms and are predominantly small, with about 77.8 percent of farmers working a usable agricultural area (SAU) below 1 carreau.
- Maize is the leading cereal, covering 16,022.1 carreaux, or 61.3 percent of cereal land, with sorghum at 9,341.2 carreaux, or 35.7 percent.
- The departmental herd totals 233,025 head, of which 85.7 percent are owned outright by the farmers.
This provisional-results report from Haiti's Ministry of Agriculture (MARNDR) presents findings of the General Census of Agriculture (RGA) for the Nippes department, part of a department-by-department series drawn from the 2008-2009 nationwide enumeration of 1,053,107 agricultural holdings. It describes the department's holdings, which account for 4.2 percent of the country's farms and are predominantly small: about 77.8 percent of farmers work a usable agricultural area (SAU) below 1 carreau. Sections cover land tenure and modes of faire-valoir, farmer literacy and demographics, land use and cropping (maize is the leading cereal, followed by sorghum), livestock, farm labor, equipment, agricultural credit, extension and advisory services, and constraints to farm development. Extensive statistical annexes provide commune-level tables and a crop nomenclature. The census was financed by the European Union and the Haitian Treasury, with technical management by the FAO, and carried out with the IHSI, CNIGS and MICT.
How to cite
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR), 2011, Provisional Results of the General Census of Agriculture (RGA) for the Nippes Department, https://www.agriculture.gouv.ht/IMG/pdf/Resultats_RGA_Nippes_4-12-11.pdf