Haiti

General information GNI per capita at PPP$, 2011: 1,180 Internal renewable water resources, 2011: 13.0 km3/year Incoming water flow, 2011: 1.0 km3/year Main food consumed, 2009: starchy roots, rice, wheat, bananas, maize, plantains, sugar, vegetables Rice consumption, 2009: 40.4 kg milled rice per person per year

Production seasons   Planting Harvesting Main Feb-Apr Jun-Aug Second Aug-Sep Nov-Dec

Write-up taken from the IRRI's Rice Almanac (2013):

Tiny Haiti, on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, occupies a third, or 27,750 km², of the island of Hispaniola. The Dominican Republic forms the remainder. Most of the country is rugged and mountainous. The climate is tropical and the mountains create semiarid conditions in parts. Haiti had a population of 10.1 million in 2011. Some 38% of the land (2009) is arable. Agriculture, mainly small scale, occupies nearly 59% of the workforce and makes up a quarter of GDP. Rice is the dominant staple but most has to be imported.

Source: FAOSTAT database online and AQUASTAT database online, as of November 2012.

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