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of the profits realized from the sale

of Haytian products has been returned

to create productive enterprises. As

a result, the republic, practically bank?

rupt and owing over $20,000,000 in

foreign ami domestic debts and claims,

is producing only an iota of the prod?

ucts of the soi! of which it is capable

tinder any system of efficient man-

agement.

A very great proportion of the ex-'

ports of Hay'i comes from the natural

products of wild plants, uncultivated

and practically uncared for. Except?

ing for the myriads of small, ineffi?

ciently cultivated garder.s of the peas?

ant: and the few enterprises recently

established by American?, the total

stock m trade of Hayti is derived from

the wild or semi-wild coffee, cotton

and cacan tices and from the log?

wood forests.

Although in many ways the most

favorably situated of all of the Car?

ibbean countries for the culture of ba?

nanas, pineapples and citrus fruits,

Hayti ships no fruit at all. Delicious

varieties of practically all of the trop?

ical or semi-tropical fruits grow wild

in all parts of the island, but there

"\ists in the whole republic not one

fruit plain at ion.

Islanders Eat Imported Rice

While Own Fields. Are Idle

Hayti imports rice each year to the

value of over $1.000.000 while large

areas of idea] lice ?and are unculti?

vated. Tobacco, which forms one of

the great staple exports of Cuba and

Porto Rico, is imported into Hayti for

local consumption. The minerai re?

sources of Hayti. while problematical,

are well worth} of a thorough investi?

gation. Tin? prospects for the develop?

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New-York tribune. (1922). New York [N.Y.], 1922-05-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1922-05-28/ed-1/?sp=19

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1922-05-28.