In 2008, when Le Nouvelliste reporter Jean Max St Fleur ran the headline "Café local, on boit la tasse" ("Local coffee, we're drinking the cup"), producers, roasters, exporters and agricultural technicians were alarmed at the drop in yield per hectare and other problems affecting the sector. But little did they know that disasters, rust and insecurity would drive Haitian coffee, whose exports have become insignificant, even deeper into the ground.
In 2023, Haitian coffee exports fell well short of the