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Baton Rouge, La. – Southern University Professor Emeritus James
McNitt was among the pioneers in the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer program to assist
Haitian Makouti Non-Governmental Organization with rabbit production in the
early 2000s. In Haiti, where the unemployment rate is estimated at 40.6% and
much of the country is food insecure, empowering rural farmers to develop their
own small agro-enterprises is a win-win approach. Haitians can create their own
job opportunities rather than waiting for them to be created, while also
filling gaps in the agricultural markets and improving food security. The
project is highly successful and impacts many lives in Haiti despite its
numerous natural disasters.
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Makouti was established in 2004 for this reason and supports
more than 1,000 producers of a wide-variety of agricultural products. Rabbit
production is an example of one type of micro-enterprise promoted by this
project. Rabbit production is an ideal activity for Haitian farmers since it is
less feed-intensive than other types of animal production. Rabbits are easy to
manage by anyone and do not require much space; the reproduction cycle is
short; and rabbit meat is higher in protein than other meats.
Dr. James McNitt has contributed immensely to this project by
working with rabbit producers in Haiti, and is highly excited about its impact saying,
“I was one of the first rabbit "NGO experts" to work on the rabbit
project during my four 2-week trips in the early 2000s.”
The project has been so successful that it was recently entered
into an online competition on the World Bank Jobs Knowledge Platform, which
aims to collect and share practices for job-creation and entrepreneurship
project with the possibility of winning a cash prize.
For further details, please
contact Dr. James McNitt at
225-771-2081 or via email james_mcnitt@suagcenter.com
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Contact:
Bridget Udoh
(225) 771-5714
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