ADOPT A COFFEE SEEDLING
This idea is inspired from the launch of the tour “ ROUTE DU CAFÉ”, which aims to attract attention on the problem of the culture of the coffee and the need of supporting growers of coffee in general and more particularly down Southeast of Haiti between Belle-Anse and Tom Gato, passing through down Fond Jean Noel and Cap Rouge. The area for the forestation is a total of 160
00 hectares in the perspective to restore the coffee place so important in the Haitian universe Restore coffee place so important in the Haitian universe, as both as the ecosystem bank and the peasants. This is a large and ambitious project, which is why we have chosen Fond Jean Noel as the pilot area with the objective of planting coffee seedlings on the 600 hectares of land ready for planting. This area is where the project has started and will continue to develop through until 2018. Adopting a seedling is to actively participate in the re-stocking of the coffee lands with the dual purpose:
• Protect and maintain the ecosystem while promoting the ongoing actions to maintain a stable microclimate.
• A further benefit of this project is to assist the farming families to regain the balance within the context of the sustainable development. The project is challenging and exciting and the benefits are assisting the communities to their coffee growing tradition and provide economic continue stability. The information relates to the last decade for which routine data collection work has been done, 1996-2006. The coffee chain, in Haiti, shows a continuing decline in production. This fall was switched on for more than 50 years. According to estimates of the international organization of coffee (ICO), for the year 2006 production of Haiti is of 46,200,000 pounds against 56,628,000 books in 1996 and represents approximately 0.2% of the world production valued at 15,992,846,760 pounds. There are more statistics after 2006. And today, 20 years later, it is painful to move figures as dismal as 1500 pounds of gourmet annually for Fond Jean Noël coffee when this population provided alone, almost 3% of the national coffee production. Fond Jean Noel, local host of the pilot project
Fond Jean Noël, Latitude: 18 ° 15'32.04 "North, longitude: 72 ° 16'58.57" West. Bottom Jean Noël, fourth (4th) communal section of Marigot in the southeast of Haiti, located in eight hundred (800) meters above sea level, about forty-six (46) km of Cayes-Jacmel, has approximately twenty-three thousand (23,000) together in 3500 families, for an area of 50.7 km2 of which 86% of households living of agriculture, especially the cultivation of coffee. Fond Jean Noël is renowned for the quality of its soil (still preserved from the chemical fertilizer) conducive to the cultivation of coffee and also for its warm and welcoming people. Today, these populations, victims of several disasters over the past decades, live in anxiety and need help to redo their plantations and re-create life in their locality. The idea of the project
This group of developers led by Rudolph Derose, the son of the well-known Haitian artist Ansy Derose who’s song intitule “ My Crime” contains the evocative passage: “ I spend all my time looking, creating since its my life I fight my best because I want to be useful to my community”. The tour “ ROUTE DU CAFÉ “on this momentum and in the same vein, from its base in Cayes Jacmel, in collaboration with the platform coffee Haitian Southeast (PCAHSE), including the Association of coffee growers, “ l’Association des Planteurs de Café de Fond Jean Noël (APKF)”, to specifically attract the attention of fellow citizens and all people of good will to the problematic and act together to rebuild coffee plantations. Ansy is one of the first, which after Jacques Roumain in « le Gouverneur de la Rosée » with his song: « Frè Do », drew attention to the deforestation and the rural exodus in Haiti. The advantages of the approach:
• Adopt a seedling of coffee means participate in sustainable reforestation;
• Adopt a seedling of coffee means create a permanent nursery and power revivify fields all time and all situations;
• Adopt a seedling of coffee means helping peasant families to regain their dignity;
• Adopt a seedling of coffee means help create employment in various fields related to the cultivation of coffee and gourmet crafts with the transformation of the coffee in liqueur, all kind of candies, pageantry craft with the creation of jewelry made with beans of coffee and other natural elements; all of this from the perspective of flow with tourists visitors;
• Adopt a seedling of coffee means help protect health because it is revealed that the coffee consumption can be beneficial in many clinical cases and even herbal tea of coffee consumption may slow down the degeneration of human vital organs such as the liver, kidneys and pancreas. We therefore plan to replant the 600 hectares, to support the coffee farmers in achieving successful coffee growth sustainably, in the processing and the marketing. Our commitment is to ensure that a percentage of the income generated be re-invested into social services and youth development such as schools, health centres, clean drinking water, cultural centres and sports fields, to name among others, to serve the needs of the local community.
