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• Business and Economy
• 04 / 17 / 2010

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The international aid favors getting food in today's Haiti, but nobody knows what will happen tomorrow, if the world turns its back on the Caribbean country or has to look to some other nation that needs help.

  With the intention to guarantee that there is fish in the country's rivers, lakes and dams, a group of Cubans is working at the Pont Sonde breeding center, in a project that started ten years ago but was boosted in 2008.

In 1999, Cuban experts in fresh-water-fish breeding began their work in an area shortly larger than one hectare (2.4 acres), built by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but they returned home in 2004, in times of a tense political situation in the Haiti.

Four years later, they came back to this country with the intention to create availability of food for Haitians, with easy-to-adapt species.

In 2009, almost 50,000 young fish were launched into the water in the country. The fries will be almost one million this year and the number of larvae will also increase.

There is a group of Haitians working with the Cubans. Cuban is not only helping the country develop its infant fishing industry, but also in construction, sugar production, and education.

The most important collaboration sphere is public health, which has been non-stopping for ten years and was essential after the January 12 earthquake that devastated this capital and caused more than 20,000 deaths.

by  Ruth

Source:PL