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Hurricane Sandy, severely affected the agriculture in the south of Haiti, where out of 140 communes, 75 suffered serious damage. MINUSTAH
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STORY: HAITI / CROP DAMAGE
TRT: 3.13
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 7 - 8 NOVEMBER 2012, VIEUX BOURG D’AQUIN, ST LOUIS DU SUD, DUCIS, SOUTHERN HAITI

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07 NOVEMBER 2012, VIEUX BOURG D’AQUIN, HAITI

1. Wide shot, Road and road sign Vieux Bourg d’Aquin
2. Pan left, from River to destroyed area
3. Med shot, Banana trees destroyed by Sandy
4. Close up, Bananas on the ground
5. Med Shot, Jensly Fleurissaint, farmer:
6.SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jensly Fleurissaint, farmer :
“Water caused a lot of damage. Houses were flooded. With a lot of mud. People had to pay to have their homes cleaned. And water destroyed houses. Lots of damage. Coconut trees uprooted, trees destroyed, all that.”
7. Med shot, a child crossing the river
8. Wide Shot, people confirming the damage
9.SOUND-UP (Creole) farmer:
“This road is leading to Bellevue, Guirrand, It’s an important road, an important road…”
10. Wide Shot, Road and sign Saint Louis du Sud
11. Pan left, from fallen trees to destroyed home
12. Med shot, house destroyed by a tree
13. Wide shot, person getting out of the house
14. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lafontaine Noel, farmer:
“Wind. There was so much wind. Look at the result. What we heard is this was the worst place. But it’s not the only destroyed place. Look at the city of St Louis. Cavaillon, everywhere!”
15. Med shot, collapsed road
16. Wide Shot, a truck passing on the collapsed road
17. Travelling shot, landscape along the road
18. Med shot, beginning of village + road sign Quartier de Ducis
19. Wide shot, damaged irrigation canal
20. Med shot, distribution of bags
21. Med shot, planter fixing a sand bag along the canal
22. Med shot, Planters fixing a sand bag along the canal
23. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Orel Aldume, planter:
“Many clients are waiting for beans. They are coming from Port-au-Prince and many other communes and departments to buy beans. We also sell to NGOs.”
24. Various shots, discussion between the planters
25. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Orel Aldume, Planter
“I need to deliver 50 tons to FAO for instance. We would need emergency aid to save this harvest.”
26. Pan right, from woman walking on the road to plantation

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Storyline

Hurricane Sandy which hit Haiti on October 25 severely affected agriculture in the south of the country.

Out of the 140 communes in Haiti, 75 suffered serious damage.

This is the case of Vieux Bourg d’Aquin, a little town in the South. Banana plantations were almost entirely destroyed by 3 consecutive days of rain brought by Hurricane Sandy.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jensly Fleurissaint, farmer:
“Water caused a lot of damage. Houses were flooded, there was a lot of mud. People had to pay to have their homes cleaned. And water destroyed houses. Lots of damage. Coconut trees uprooted, trees destroyed, all that.”

Even roads leading to crops were damaged. More than two weeks after the hurricane, people need to walk on trees to reach several suburbs of Vieux Bourg.

SOUND-UP (Creole) farmer:
“This road is leading to Bellevue, Guirrand. It’s an important road, an important road.”

Back on the main road towards Les Cayes is St Louis du Sud, here villagers believe that they were hit hardest in the country. Coconut trees, breadfruit, many fruit-trees, almost ready to be sold. Everything is on the ground. Some century old trees have been uprooted by the strong winds, and some houses won’t be reparable.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lafontaine Noël, farmer:
“Wind. There was so much wind. Look at the result. What we heard is that this was the worst place. But it’s not the only destroyed place. Look at the city of St Louis. Cavaillon, everywhere!”

2500 km of roads used by farmers were damaged across the country, and part of National Road number 2 became very risky.

Down the road is Ducis, a suburb of Les Cayes. Black beans are the typical agricultural production here, but water pipes were destroyed in several places damaging the whole crop.

While planters are awaiting the state to repair it, they try to find temporary solutions. However, these sand bags don’t really do the job.

If beans cannot be planted in November, the local economical harvest will be in serious danger as of January 2013.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Orel Aldume, Planter:
“Many clients are waiting for beans. They are coming from Port-au-Prince and many other communes and departments to buy beans. We also sell to NGOs. I need to deliver 50 tons to FAO for instance. We would need emergency aid to save this harvest.”

The harving of congo beans is lost : too much water in the roots during the 3 days of rain.

As for the planting of black beans, November should have brought a regular irrigation. The result of this bad water could endanger all future crops.

With the combined impacts of draught, Tropical Storm Isaac and Hurricane Sandy, one third of the annual agricultural production was destroyed.

More than 100 000$ worth of destruction were caused by Sandy alone.

With already 15 percent of Haitian people suffering of food insecurity, emergency aid measures are needed to avoid widespread famine.

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