Oct 30 Rice Harvest

While Haiti continues to struggle with high food prices and the loss of many corps during the storms, some crops did fine.

During our trip to Port-au-Prince we saw the damage from the storms. Dead corn plants, crippled banana plants, up rooted Mango trees were all sadly evident.

But not all the crops were damaged. Among the dead corn we saw ripening millet fields. We saw trees heavy with mangoes and fields of undamaged bananas.

In the large Artobonite valley they were both planting and harvesting rice. They rotate plots of land so that at any one time there is rice at various stages of development. People were cutting the rice, thrashing, drying, and bagging rice as well as gathering, burning the rice straw. Other plots of land were being hoed in preparation for planting. We haven't seen a drop in food prices yet.