Let's talk Agriculture in Haiti
“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own”; James Baldwin . Now, I can’t say for certain that the Department of Agriculture has a picture of George Washington Carver on its wall; I used to roam the hall of that building at lunch recess for many years and I don’t remember seeing one there. As for the School of Agriculture, I attended a couple of parties there; but I failed the entrance exam but, I’m not so sure they know who he is there hero either. The previous sentence might put me in the company of those who have the least to say about agriculture in Haiti. But, that is not all. I was once a farm boy in the area known as “La Plaine”. The vast and lush sugar cane and banana plantations in that area contributed handsomely in getting me where I am today. I can honestly say that there is not one of the cash crops raised in that area that I did not plant myself or at the least watch others plant. Now that we have established the fact that I am at the least bit familiar with the