Right to Livelihoods in Haiti

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AgriTropical
Engineer Louis Jeannel Junior
3 781 7141
LouisJeannelJunior781@gmail.com
Louis Jeanne is middle class, lives in a middle class house, expensive vehicles. Pure entrepreneur. No NGO
assistance. Terrific insight and analysis of the situation.
Has laying operation in his back yard.
The problem with the eggs is that the cycle is 14 months. No vacation… anything can happen. It takes
about 150 days to maybe break even…. 200 to make a profit.
The meat is a 45 day cycle; and more profit
There is more risk, greater care, have to
collect the eggs, sell them constantly. For
meat, you can buy all the food you need for
the next 45 days…. With the layers, feed price
can go up.
The only advantage is that the eggs store
longer.
Increase in prices just since May
36 gd – 40 gd pousin
750 – 785 sack feed
Engineer Louis Jeana's intriguing backy yard operation
“The producer loses that money”
With the meat, they are staggering their purchases for every 15 days so they have chickens to sell all the
time…
He says that Haiti Broilers chickens are no good. Some are “handicapped.” Quality of the chics are low,
they don’t develop. 4 -5 lbs is not big enough. Hard to sell with the machann.
He talks about how the cost of chicken is lower in PaP than in the rural areas. This means they buy all the
raw materials for PaP and they produce. But if they send it back to PaP the price is less than in the rural
areas. A typically chicken, plucked and prepared, selling for 552 goud in PaP. Sells for higher price in rural
areas
He’s frustrated with Hi Pro and says they have to detach themselves from them. “It’s not possible that the
same company that sells you the chicks sells you the food.” They can take your profit at any time just by
raising the cost of feed.