Boosting the sisal industry in the Northeast

ll"The Dauphin plantation in the Northeast was the largest sisal plantation in the world in 1952 with a production of 35,000 tons of fiber. Which at the time represented 25% of the GDP in Haiti and provided more than 20,000 direct jobs," said Pierre-Yves Gardère, an official of SISALCO SA, a local sisal company, during a presentation on March 24th on the revival of this sector. According to Gardère, the decline of sisal in Haiti can be attributed to the onset of synthetic fibers and political unrest that contributed to the closing of the Dauph