The Southeast coffee basin around Thiotte and Belle-Anse, ranked among Haiti's high-potential zones. Typica dominates the country's coffee.
Thiotte, a commune in Belle-Anse arrondissement in Haiti's Sud-Est department at about 956 m, and neighbouring Belle-Anse form the Southeast coffee basin, which Haiti's coffee institute ranks among the country's high-potential zones. A 2011 Catholic Relief Services assessment independently lists Thiotte, Belle Anse and Marigot among the Southeast's high-quality-potential zones. Arabica Typica accounts for roughly 80% of Haiti's coffee area.
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Haiti's coffee institute lists Thiotte, Belle Anse and Marigot together as the Southeast's high-potential coffee communes.
Elsewhere in Haiti
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- Zones caféières · INCAH (Institut National du Café d'Haïti)
- Thiotte · Wikipedia
- Assessment of Haitian Coffee Value Chain: A participatory assessment of coffee chain actors in southern Haiti · Catholic Relief Services (Rodriguez, Castaneda, Lundy), fieldwork 2010