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Haiti Fruit Agro Project
 UCT
is looking to increase the grafting of fruit trees in Haiti and seeks
to introduce a number of new commercial varieties of fruits. This
will involve extensive grafting of the miniature Golden Apple, the
citrus mango and avocado trees designed to increase farmers’
incomes and for ecological benefits.
This project will involve soil conservation, agro forestry and
crop improvement linked to marketing initiatives designed to increase
farmer incomes.
 UCT’s
agro program is designed to increase the number of commercial trees
by nursery production of seedlings and by top-grafting the sour
orange trees which grow in abundance throughout the countryside.
UCT has selected the varieties which demonstrated the highest crops
revenues: Clementine, Mandarine de Jacmel, Tangelo, and sweet oranges
such as Washington Navel and Valencia.
Citrus crops in the Caribbean are currently threatened by the regional
expansion of the tristeza disease. Although tristeza has not yet
been officially identified as present in Haiti, the risk of its
introduction and the widespread destruction of citrus cannot be
discounted. As a result, UCT is researching tristeza-resistant rootstock
varieties, Swingle and Carrizo, with the objective of building up
local supplies of resistant rootstock material in the country to
protect against the regional expansion of this disease.
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