Proposals for a 25 Years Plan Part 3

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PAUL G. MAGLOIRE POUR LA DECENTRALIZATION D'HAITI To revive the economy and achieve visible results quickly, we will focus on a maximum of ten priorities.

As mentioned earlier, these priorities could be drawn from the group that is selected to assess the human development index of a country which is in line with the Millennium Development Goals.

In doing so the country can benefit from publicity, so we arrive in record time exceed twenty or more countries that are before us in the scales of certain international organizations who still rank us in the last row among states in bankruptcy.

Something we need to change.

Then, it will facilitate private sector investment.

The businessmen who seek financing on the international market are learning that their biggest handicap is because the country is ranked very low in the scale of performance.

Go see the indexes of the World Bank to convince you. And foreign investors interested in the country always consult this information before making their decisions.

Of course, there is also the issue of insecurity which fortunately has improved substantially, these days.

Young entrepreneurs of the next 25 years
An engineer who was in charge of building the new town of Belladere said that President Dumarsais Estimé visiting the site had to face an unusual situation.

Indeed, visiting a new house newly inhabited by new tenants, the President and his delegation noticed that a hen brooded in the sink. Faced with the embarrassment of members of the delegation and present authorities, Human Verrettes did not seem at all moved, and declared a high way to be heard by everyone: "We must give hope younger.

The new generation will learn how to use a sink if we continue to build houses with sinks.

And they are hopeful they will not be massacred again by thousands, among neighbors.

The good president would be disappointed today to see the state of his country and there are many more of our compatriots in the neighboring republic now, with a fate far worse than during his lifetime.

Today, we are fortunate to have a young population who wants to advance.

Over 60% of the population is below 25 years.

In the past 10 years, 50 thousand of them, on average, occur every year in the final exams of high school.

It is certain that if we mobilize the construction of three new capital, they would build.

They have a reason to exist.

Do not forget when you're young you want to change the world.

We must give them the chance to prove we are not a degenerate race. We can do it. They are the builders of all sorts of businesses that will create work and wealth in the country.

We can not abandon them. We must do something.

Do you have requested are doing our neighbors today?

Whence comes economic growth of 10% per year?

When we are happy with our 3.5% growth, they are currently building new poles of development and dream to become the largest tourist destination in the region.

And what should we do wrong is that many of the workers who work in these yards are Haitians who go there and accept harsh conditions because it is much better than unemployment in our.

But Human Verrettes thought he could meet the challenge of his time, peasant's son. He threw the vast irrigation scheme of the Artibonite Valley, with funding of about $ 20 million from the World Bank, the first loan to Haiti.

Then he asked all Haitian subscribe to Bon Dignity to repay debt National Bank, founded a bank credit to finance agricultural production, began the program of modernization of Seaside and the construction of the City's Bicentennial.

Within 5 years, the son of peasant Verrettes made so that the number of Haitians crossing the border to work in bateys Dominicans had significantly decreased.

That brought a few years later, the Dominican caudillo, Leonidas C. Trujillo, under which the massacre took place, to come to Haiti to sign an agreement regulating the contributions of Haitian workers in the Dominican Zafra.

Indeed, the legal establishment of three new capital would bring new excitement to leave the Republic of Port-au-Prince, not to go to Santo Domingo, Cayenne, or Miami, but to new attractive and modern cities of the country which tend to create opportunities especially for the youngest, and also for some older people have not yet found a decent job in their adult life. We must live without hope of finding decent work as an adult after university studies to understand how hard it is to love the country you were born and which does nothing to maintain a decent life.
These new regional capitals would facilitate the decentralization of the university system by providing for the creation of a modern university campus in the Far North, the South Grand and Grand Central Canada, to offer another perspective to our young people today are forced travel in the Dominican Republic to find the chance to enter university.

It would hurt to know that the majority of these students is supported by their parents who work very hard in the U.S. to send money to the Dominican Republic.

Our company is already studying how the 45,000 youth who will be trained in the use and maintenance of computers and electronic equipment may also receive training in the management of micro-enterprises so they can make their own, finding adequate funding, and thus, they can themselves become employers and increase employment opportunities in the country.

He must believe, the technical improvement of the economic environment and increased payroll and employment opportunities, will have a positive impact on employee benefits that are currently insufficient for the maintenance of life decent and dignified.

The company also plans to train 45,000 young people from rural areas in the manufacturing of handicrafts with light equipment and with a market orientation in the tourism sector and construction sector.

The capitals represent new markets for the products of these small companies that also work as a network.

The desirability of producing biodiesel in Haiti
The price of oil from oil, such as gas and diesel continue to rise in the market with oil hovers around $ 100 a barrel.

We do not expect to see a significant drop in the price of these products.

There are three main reasons.

First, the cost of production of oil and its derivatives has greatly increased lately.

Indeed, industry production of petroleum products to increase its capacity and meet market requirements, is obligated to acquire new equipment to comply with the rules of environmental protection and reduce toxic waste.

These new facilities are much more expensive and the costs of these investments increased in the prices paid by consumers.

Secondly, countries like the Republic of China and India, which enjoy a fast-growing economy, has absorbed two of them, nearly half of the increase in world oil production in the last 5 years.

Finally, the world's oil reserves begin to decline, given that in recent years have not discovered large oil fields.

So, the big oil-exporting countries that make up the OPEC cartel to maintain their reserves, have agreed to reduce the amount of oil they offer on the world market.

Added to all this, there would be instability in the Persian Gulf region with a concentration of world's largest exporters of oil. These factors are catalysts of increased prices, and they continue to exert strong pressure on the supply of crude oil on the world market.

So, as things are what he must choose his path. Given that we import all petroleum products we consume for transportation and for electric power plants based on diesel, he should see how we can produce some of our needs locally.

The track is biodiesel, which is derived from oleaginous fruits such as Gwo-medsiyen, its scientific name Jatropha.

The Gwo-medsiyen is a plant that grows throughout the country, even on dry land. The farmer loved for its medicinal uses and as hedges for his garden, because animals do not eat the bitter leaves of Gwo-medsiyen.

It is a plant that requires very little maintenance and produces in all seasons.

The peasant is associated with other crops in his garden and the Gwo-medsiyen serves as a cover crop. Thus, the production of biodiesel is derived from oil extracted from grain Gwo-medsiyen, the farmer may have an additional income from her garden, as was previously the case with sisal in dryland regions.

Harvesting Gwo-medsiyen in the fields, depending on crop type, can provide income up to $ 600 per hectare.

The growers can come together in associations and cooperative and to increase their production and their ability to negotiate for the price of their products.

This experience is already implemented in several countries, like China, India and Cameroon, with great success.

Production of biodiesel from Gwo-medsiyen, brings the work in these countries, social groups, like women, who are often without monetary income.

In addition to intercropping, growing Gwo-medsiyen can be planted in well, with performance that can wait a peak of 6000 gallons of oil per hectare.

This production could be designed to feed power plants and regional distribution in petrol pumps for supply of vehicles.

The production of biodiesel also secondary products, such as meal used to feed and fertilizer rich in phosphorus, which would improve the production of vegetable crops in the surrounding areas.

Small farmers can be encouraged to cultivate Gwo-medsiyen, not only for its seeds, but also as a cover crop to reduce soil erosion, semi-desert.

Production of biodiesel is the kind of industry that could have a very positive vertical impact on the rural sector to accelerate the country's economy.

Prosint is studying the launch of a program for the production of biodiesel in the country.

First, a pilot, then a large scale, involving the transport unions and associations of small growers.

Production of biodiesel in Haiti, is in itself an undertaking to green and also had many positive impacts on the environment.

For the Gwo-medsiyen is a cover crop that reduces the degradation of semi-arid land undergoing erosion caused by torrential rains.

Intensive production of this plant will create tens of thousands of jobs in the rural sector.

So, this company will slow down the rural exodus, whose primary causes are unemployment and lack of opportunity.

The fact bring work and income for farmers, production intensive Gwo-medsiyen can be used to reduce the systematic cutting of trees for making charcoal.

In fact, when pressed by hunger, he arrives at the farmer cut a fruit tree for lack of other resources to survive and to make charcoal.

Haiti will never produce enough biodiesel to meet its needs.

Because we eat, now, about 100 million gallons of petroleum products and the effort to accelerate our economy will increase the demand considerably.

Other countries in the region, as the Dominican Republic, however, saw the advantage of using biodiesel for their country by reducing, somewhat, the import of hydrocarbons.

They are going up factories to manufacture biodiesel from Gwo-medsiyen which is already planted with other crops on a significant scale.

Several countries in the Caribbean and Latin America participated in December 2007 in Miami, at a summit to discuss a joint effort to benefit from the production of biodiesel as an alternative to oil whose price does not cease to increase.

Honduras, a country as poor as we in the region that has chosen to support accelerated economic growth to create jobs, has announced that plantations of oil for biodiesel production would expand in 100,000 hectares this year. However, there is also a company that is already planning to launch large-scale plantations in Guyana and is preparing to call on the labor of Haitian peasants to cultivate their plantations.

So if we do not take advantage of this opportunity to create work for our farmers, it seems that others will take advantage of them. So we must believe that once again the history of Zafra could repeat itself ...

We begin a new year. Take this opportunity to wish us a productive 2008 and success in our business and the protection of Divine Haiti.

Paul G. MagloirePrésident / CEO Prosint, Inc.

Paul G. Magloire, March 12 2010, 1:04 AM

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