AID cooperative agreement no. 521-0182-A-00-5028-00, non-governmental support III with the Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment for a program of fruit tree improvement and distribution of improved fruit tree seedlings to small farmers in the Macaya region of southwestern Haiti

The Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment will carry out subproject activities, including: (1) producing 20,000 grafted fruit tree seedlings (15,000 citrus, 4,000 avocado, and 1,000 mango) in ultra-violet resistant plastic bags and distributing them to approximately 2,000 small farmers who own less than 5 carreaux of land; (2) establishing special orchards at Duchity and Platon, to include rare tree varieties for future grafting; (3) locating, and grafting with high-quality budwood, 10,000 wild, low-quality sour orange trees; and (4) training a team of 8 animator/technicians in grafting techniques to enable them to educate the local population and to help implement subproject field activities.