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STORY: HAITI / DOUBLE HARVEST
TRT: 3.02
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 30 APRIL 2009, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, Double Harvest sign in a field
2. Wide shot, containers of tree seedlings
3. Close up, pines seedlings
4. Close up, eucalyptus seedlings
5. Wide shot, tree nursery
6. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Frantz Angus, Director Double Harvest:
“These seedlings are in something called a root trainer. It helps the tree to grow tightly knit, elongated roots. This gives the tree a good base – or like strong legs on a growing child.”
7. Med shot, water flowing out of a pipe – Ebb and Flow irrigation
8. Wide shot, water flowing
9. Med shot, pipe spewing water into the nursery
10. Wide shot, nursery filled with water
11. Close up, water draining from nursery
12. Wide shot, water in nursery
13. Close up, machine spitting seeds
14. Close up, root trainer passing
15. Med shot, machine that spits seeds into root trainers
16. Med shot, women planting sprouts
17. Close up, woman’s hands planting sprouts
18. Wide shot, man in a field
19. Close up, man’s hands on leaves
20. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Clairme Jean Crepsaint, Agricultural Technician :
“A lot of peasants come here to buy agricultural produce. We also sell to supermarkets. But we prefer selling to peasants so they can resell it in markets in their villages, like Croix-de-Bouquets and Petionville.”
21. Med shot, chickens
22. Close up, chickens
23. Med shot, eggs in a box
24. Med shot, chickens
25. Med shot, man feeding tilapia in tanks
26. Close up, tiny 5 gram tilapia
27. Close up, bigger 450 gram tilapia
28. Wide shot, tubes of water feeding tanks
29. Close up, hand takes a plate of food
30. Pan left, workers eating lunch
31. Close up, hand picking out weeds
32. Med shot, woman picking out weeds
33. Wide shot, women workers weeding
34. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Frantz Angus, Director Double Harvest:
“Here, everyone is a boss, everyone is important. Everyone working here is collaborating on the mission of Double Harvest, to make Haiti a better place."
35. Wide shot, woman with a seed shooter machine
36. Tilt up, woman planting seedlings
37. Wide shot, man walking through a field
In Haiti, one NGO is using simple technology to increase crop yields and protect the environment.
One of Double Harvest’s objectives is to reforest the country. Their nursery holds three million tree seedlings, including varieties like pine, oak and eucalyptus. The process of producing these seedlings depends on a simple box called a root trainer.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Frantz Angus, Director Double Harvest:
“These seedlings are in something called a root trainer. It helps the tree to grow tightly knit, elongated roots. This gives the tree a good base – or like strong legs on a growing child.”
Another innovation is the irrigation system, called Ebb and Flow. Developed in Europe, it works by filling concrete pools full of root trainers with water. After 15 minutes, the water is drained; the water is then recycled to fill the adjacent pool, so not a drop of precious water is wasted.
Modern machines also help with planting. Spinach seeds are shot into root trainers; when they sprout, they will be sorted by a team of workers and replanted on Double Harvest’s 100 hectares of land.
Clairime Jean Crepsaint has been working with Double Harvest for 15 years. He says the tons of vegetables produced by the NGO are an important source of revenue for local people.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Clairme Jean Crepsaint, Agricultural Technician :
“A lot of peasants come here to buy agricultural produce. We also sell to supermarkets. But we prefer selling to peasants so they can resell it in markets in their villages, like Croix-de-Bouquets and Petionville.”
And Double Harvest doesn’t stop at just growing crops. They are building a chicken-house which by the summer should produce up to 4000 eggs per day. The goal is to sell them at a price cheaper than eggs imported from the Dominican Republic.
Huge tanks hold nearly 100,000 Tilapia. In just five months 5 gram fish will grow by nearly 100 times, to 450 gram fish that can be sold cheaply, and enrich the Haitian diet. What’s more – the dirty water from the tanks makes great fertilizer for the crops.
The NGO is feeding up to 900 people a day, including 300 workers and it is an important source of employment in the area. Not only are people earning a good wage, but they are playing an important role in rebuilding Haiti’s damaged environment.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Frantz Angus, Director Double Harvest:
“Here, everyone is a boss, everyone is important. Everyone working here is collaborating on the mission of Double Harvest, to make Haiti a better place."
With simple technical innovations, and many hands, Double Harvest is increasing agricultural output, creating jobs, and protecting the country’s environment all at the same time.
