Agriculture production

Aki
Akee
Blighia sapida

Paradoxically, this tree, which is one of the very few domesticated in West Africa, is rare in the only Negro Republic of the Americas. In neighboring Jamaica, the fruit is popularly consumed cooked with salt cod. Most of the specimens observed were in the vicinity of Jérémie. Aki existed in Saint-Domingue in 1800 on the Paquet habitation in Jérémie. Late in the 18th century, it had been carried from Africa to Jamaica by Captain Bligh of HMS Bounty.

Herbe Guinée
Guinea grass
Penicum maximum

The chief crop planted primarily for fodder, guinea grass is grown extensively in high areas and low, in moist regions and dry. It is most prominent in the drier areas such as Saltrou, Aquin, L'Asile, and Petit-Trou-de-Nippes. Commonly it is raised in fields protected by fences or hedges. Propagation is usually by the division of clumps and the setting out of the small plants in a field prepared by cultivation. Sometimes seed is sown. Ordinarily the guinea grass is not grazed, rather it is cut and carried to the livestock. Horses and mules are given priority over the other stock in the feeding of guinea grass. It is also used for thatch.

Oseille
Sorrel
Rumex app.

There is an appreciable production of European sorrel, Rumex patienta, in the mountains near Kenscoff for the Port-au-Prince market. Various species of Rumex have become naturalized in the heights of La Selle. There is an insignificant amount of European sorrel and of guinea sorrel, hibiscus sabdariffa, raised in other parts of Haiti. Guinea sorrel also has become naturalized.