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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says it is providing US4 million worth of seeds and tools to thousands of farmers in Haiti, the impoverished Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
A FAO statement Monday said that it is giving some 600 tons in bean, maize and sorghum seeds as well as hoes and machetes to 70,000 families and that the US$4 million donation would help with the current planting season.
But the FAO said it would need an extra US$64 million to help around 500,000 needy families for the next three planting seasons.
In April at least six people were killed in riots sparked by rising food prices that also led to the removal of Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis.
He is now likely to be replaced by economist Michele Pierre-Louis, who was ratified by the Senate last weekend.
Haitian legislators had earlier rejected President Rene Preval's two nominees for prime minister - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economist Ericq Pierre and security expert and presidential adviser Robert Manuel.
According to Haiti's constitution, the prime minister must be ratified by both houses of parliament and then return for a second round of voting by the Cabinet
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