The Agriculture Ministry’s Livestock Dept. on Sunday said it expects the first two or three farms to be certified to resume eggs and chicken exports to Haiti within 60 days, while producers eye doubled sales with formalized trade on Hispaniola.
Livestock director Bolivar Toribio also notes that although some 100 major farms can export to Haiti, they need to review their long term modification process. “That is a process that takes time, because if you go to a farm that has no bathrooms for employees, they have to build them, together with a septic and a drain field.”
He said International organizations approve the standards which govern the certification process, which in his view will benefit the country’s poultry production that will have the quality needed to enter any global market.
Haiti, Dominican pact on trade
The pact Haitian and Dominican officials signed Thursday on compliance with sanitary protocol and subsequent certification means a boost for exporters, according to egg producers association (ASOHUEVO) president Manuel Escaño, who estimated that exports could already jump from 30 to 60 million units monthly
Before Port-au-Prince banned imports of Dominican poultry around 30 million eggs (RD$120 million) and some 700,000 chickens (RD$70 million) were exported per month.
