Project paper : interim swine repopulation

The project, to be implemented by the Interamerican Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), will import U.S. breeding pigs for breeding and distribution to small farmers. Some 450 improved swine will be shipped from the U.S. to a breeding center of the Haitian-American Meat and Provision Company (HAMPCO), a U.S. company based in Port-au-Prince; the center will be repaired and leased for project purposes. Swine will be bred, weaned, and fed at HAMPCO under stringent hygienic conditions until they reach market weight at 8 weeks of age. Some 15-20 sentinel pigs (not funded by the project) will monitor the possible outbreak of disease at the center. Once the program is underway, 160 offspring will be produced weekly, 50% of which will be fattened and distributed to NGO"s which will in turn establish 50-100 small, secondary multiplication centers (SMC"s), which will sell or give second generation offspring to small farmers. Each potential SMC will prepare: a management plan showing how costs can be recovered and a distribution plan showing how at least 50% of the piglets produced will be distributed to farmers. In all, some 4,500 breeder pigs will be produced from the imported stock and distributed to SMC"s; these pigs will have the potential to produce 50,000 piglets each year, at least 23,000 (19,000 males and 4,000 females) of which will distributed to farmers. Amendment (8/31/84) extends project 6 months and adds: (1) a herd health monitoring component to assist SMC"s in herd management, provide veterinary support to SMC"s, and help in developing farmer training materials on swine health; (2) a disease monitoring component to support the USDA"s ASF surveillance program (including activities to reduce the feral swine population and continue testing ASF-infected swine; complete an epidemiological survey of sentinel pig sites; and continue a serological survey of sentinel pigs (especially in at-risk areas) and the inservice training of Haitian staff, with focus on swine disease reporting and related control efforts. (PD-AAR-397) Amendment (6/23/86) extends project 16 months, with emphasis on assisting SMC"s with veterinary and extension services and developing self-sustaining local feed sources; A central and 3 regional feed mills will be established. (PD-AAU-425) Amendment (7/31/87) extends project to 9/30/89 and initiates a health surveillance component to strengthen Haiti"s National Veterinary Services and its National Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory; an Inter-American Development Bank project will support this activity when this project ends. (PD-AAX-243)