Vanilla Export Company - Haiti Development Project

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Vanilla Export Company is producing and distributing field ready plants for 500 Haitian families in the Northern Region of Haiti. The efforts of starting a vanilla industry in Haiti began in 2003 thanks to Anne and Rob Reynolds, who have maintained a school in the Limbe Watershed near Cap Haitien for almost a decade. The desire to provide a different way of living to poor haitian farmers brought them to our company. In 2004 Vanilla Export Company planted the first in-vitro plantlets in Haiti. In 2007, these plants flowered and produced vanilla beans! At that time, it was clear that a Vanilla Industry in Haiti was viable. Vanilla Export Company brought together its expertise in project implementation and Just before the 2010 Earthquake, DAI and USAID set up a grant agreement to provide planting material and technical assistance to beneficiaries of the DEED project. The earthquake and political intervention in Washington brought the project to a halt. With continued efforts of DAI and Vanilla Export Company, the project is finally under way. Vanilla Export Company will continue to expand vanilla production in Haiti.