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30297: Re: 30259: Leiderman re Lyall 30285: rice-a-rama (fwd)
From: PM Raber <raber88@zoominternet.net>
For Haiti's agriculture to become profitable, it should find niche markets for
many of its wonderful product. When I go to my local grocer, I pay $3 for a
pomegranite (Grenade). Grenade plants are fast growing and produce in
abundance. In Haiti they have no market value. They are fun food that little
kids eat. The "Pom" version of pomegranite juice is even more costly than the
fruit. The Haitian mango Fransik is still the best mango around. Nobody
can beat the Tangerines from the Lavaneau area near Jacmel. The only place I
have tasted a similarly delicious tangerine was in the Jamaican Blue Mountains.
Westerners are spending a fortune on "mangosteen juice" another wonder tropical
fruit that appears to be very similar (in taste and qualities not genus and
species) to the Haitian Kayimit (Star Apple). The star apple tree used to
cover many Haitian mountains. The Kayimit is way more nutritious than the
mangosteen as it is very high in calcium and has up to 5 times the amount of
protein and other nutrients. you can compare those fruits by going to the
site:
www.hort.[urdue.edu/newcrop/morton/star_apple.html or /mangosteen.html
It would not take more than 10 year aggressively pusruing niche market for
organic rice, organic pitimi, gluten free flours (Haitian have oodles of those
flours from manioc, plantans etc..), exotic fruit and juices, and "recently
secret" leaf doctor homeopathic mixtures of soaps, teas etc.... to earn a
dominant share of the new markets seeking untouched fruits as alternative to
the disgusting and tasteless red apple and unripe bananas. Add to that the
insecticides from the Nime trees and the possibilities are endless
American are paying a fortune for the juice of a fruit from Asia (can;