The executive director of World Hunger Relief Inc. is partnering with a Cornell University program and a rice specialist from Madagascar in an international effort to improve rice farming in Haiti.
Neil Miller, who lived in Haiti for six years, leaves today to take part in a four-day training program in northeast Haiti that will teach farmers about a growing method known as System of Rice Intensification designed to increase rice production.
World Hunger Relief is a sustainable agriculture training farm in Elm Mott.
After visiting Haiti in February, Miller said he knew something needed to be done to help the nation devastated by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12 that left roughly 3 million people in need of emergency aid.
Feeling discouraged by the seemingly insurmountable barriers to help rice production in Haiti, he found others who shared his idea upon returning to Waco.
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