Claim · model-written summary
Direct seeding at 200,000 pl/ha cut bean costs in half.
- Taxon
- beane0
- Treatment
- Direct seeding at an optimum density of 200,000 pl/hae3
- Outcome
- costse3
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede3
- Value
- in halfe3
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“The bean, essential to the Haitian diet and economy”
e3“Direct seeding at an optimum density of 200,000 pl/ha cuts costs in half”
Title
Beans: A Key to Feeding and Enriching Haiti
Saint-Pré, Patrick; Jerome, Jean Phares; Evens Joseph HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) 2025. doi:10.13140/rg.2.2.10584.81928
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- Intervention effect Drought- and disease-resistant bean varieties tripled yields to 1.8 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Adapted fertilization increased bean profits to 3899 USD/ha.
- Observation Farmers chose Sankara bean on the plains and Lore 249 in the mountains.
- Association The bean advances reduced dependence on imports by 20 % (30.9 million USD/year).
- Observation Access to seeds and fertilizers for bean growers remains limited, particularly for female heads of household.
- Recommendation E-PSi-CoRe urges the MARNDR to fund agronomic research for bean and Haitian agriculture.