Status report on global Neem usage - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

4. NEEM IN DEVELOPMENT-COOPERATION PROJECTS
CONTACT: ALTERTEC: phone: (502) 765-2069, e-mail: altertecxela@mail 2.guate.net
address: 4 Calle 16-73, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
HAITI
Since the seventies US NGOs such as Catholic Relief Services were assisting community
groups and the Road Departments in planting neem along the roads and as shade trees in
the villages. Today community groups and Road Department are growing about 5 million
neem trees in Haiti e.g. along most streets leading from the capital Port au Prince to the
provinces. In north-western region near Port de Paix even plantations exists.
Neem seeds are processed and exported e.g. to USA or Dominican Republic.
The NGOs CARE and “Operation Double Harvest”, USA are promoting the application in
vegetable production in the Cul -de Sac region in north Haiti.
Literature:
STRZOK, P. (1992): Cost Benefit Analysis of Neem Tree Product Technologies: South Asia,
Haiti and the Sahelian Zone, West Africa, p. 61, <strong>report</strong> for USAID.
HONDURAS
Some neem trees are growing at the river Zamorano in the south of the country, however no
fruits are produced so far. The GTZ IPM Project in Honduras included awareness creating
and training on the use of neem for vegetable production and produced and disseminated
extension material.
Some commercial neem products are registered in Honduras.
NGOs: Cooperación Hondureño-Alemana de Seguridad Alimentaria (COHASA)
& El Proyecto Conservación y Silvicultura de Especies Forestales de Honduras (CON-
SEFORH), Land Use and Productivity Enhancement (LUPE), Proyecto de Apoyo a la
Política Forestal - PROFOR
COHASA has planted since 1988 in about 35 municipios of Choluteca near the border to
Nicaragua neem trees as the projects of CONSEFORTH, LUPE and PROFOR did later in
the Department of Choluteca of some 30 000 stems. The trees were use mainly for shade
and hedges and occasionally for medicinal purposes.
CONSEFORH tested the performance of neem on the Experimental Station of La Soledad,
and distributed seeds.
The agricultural school “Escuela Agrícola Panamericana el Zamorano” is producing small
scale crude neem extracts for demonstration and testing. La Escuela Nacional de Agricultura
de Catacamas (ENA) have a small plantation of 350 neem plants which started to
produce seeds in 2000. ENA provides information on the use of neem.
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