Farmers in Haiti’s Maniche drive rice production revival aiming to restore battered agriculture sector
A grassroots effort to revive rice farming in Maniche is offering a glimmer of hope for Haiti’s fragile agriculture sector, long undercut by a combination of factors. These include notably trade liberalization policies imposed by international financial institutions, minimal government investment and the influx of cheap subsidized US rice branded as “Diri Miami” or “Miami Rice”. Natural disasters, political instability and inadequate infrastructure further worsened this shift. The post Farmers in Haiti’s Maniche drive rice production revival aiming to restore […]
