Zakas\u00f2l, an agricultural and training enterprise, is rising in a sector that has declined for six consecutive years, aiming to become a national reference in agrarian innovation, entrepreneurship and community education<\/p>\n
Zakas\u00f2l, founded in 2021 by Emmanuella Marc and agronomist Jesum\u00e8ne Ninger, supports farmers in La Vall\u00e9e-de-Jacmel with fertilizers, training and technical guidance. Recognized by the Haitian government, the initiative strengthens local agriculture, stabilizes input prices and empowers farmers and youth.<\/p>\n
PORT-AU-PRINCE \u2014 It all began with a desperate phone call. At the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Emmanuella Marc had just learned that the Creole term\u00a0Agros\u00f2l<\/em>, which she planned to register for her new business, was already taken. She called her friend Magdala Louis, insisting she wouldn\u2019t leave the office without another name. Minutes later, Louis called back and said: \u201cName the business Zakas\u00f2l.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWithout hesitation, we wasted no time registering it,\u201d Marc told\u00a0The Haitian Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cZakas\u00f2l is a combination of two words: Zaka, a symbol of hard work and peasant knowledge in Vodou culture, and s\u00f2l, which means soil \u2014 the foundation of all life.\u201d<\/p>\n The company is rooted in La Vall\u00e9e-de-Jacmel, a commune in Haiti\u2019s southeast, about 58 miles from Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital.<\/p>\n Zakas\u00f2l \u2014 an agricultural and training enterprise \u2014 was born from an idea of agronomist Jesum\u00e8ne Ninger, Marc\u2019s cousin. For years, Ninger dreamed of creating a structure in La Vall\u00e9e where farmers could access fertilizers, seeds and adequate training<\/p>\n Since 2021, Zakas\u00f2l has supplied fertilizers, tools and seeds to dozens of farmers, along with processed goods such as peanuts,\u00a0akasan<\/em>,\u00a0chanmchanm<\/em>, corn and banana flour, cassava flour, ginger powder and animal feed. The company also produces natural fertilizer through composting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zakas\u00f2l, an agricultural and training enterprise, is rising in a sector that has declined for six consecutive years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioprogresinter.com\/Doudou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}