Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab partners returned to work just a day after Hurricane Matthew swept through the country. While the storm killed at least 280 people in Haiti, PMIL partners in the northern part of the country were mostly unscathed.
Meds & Food for Kids, which makes peanut-based therapeutic food and conducts agricultural research to improve local peanut crops, reported Thursday that the facility had no damage and was only closed for 24 hours. Employees returned to work quickly, knowing that there would be need for the products in other parts of the country. The research plots were not flooded or damaged.
MFK also reported that collaborators in the Northeast region were not affected and the crop looks good.
Acceso, a partner organization that buys and compiles peanuts, said that all their depot managers in the Central Plateau are OK, but are still assessing if there was significant crop damage.