Cotton production

Cotton is a common dooryard plant throughout the country except in the very humid or cool uplands. In various periods throughout the history of Haiti, it has been a significant commercial crop in low altitude regions, especially in the Artibonite and in the south coast areas of low rainfall (Aquin) or shallow stony soil (Jacmel).

According to botanists of the Haitian Department of Agriculture who made a study of the indigenous cottons for the purpose of selecting a superior variety, the native cotton is a more or less complex mixture of four species: G. vitifolium, G. barbadense, G. hirsutum var. religiosum, and G. purpurascens.