Does the average Haitian farmer know how much Nitrogen Corn Needs to Grow?

First, here is what I found out from an old agronomy guide from Purdue University...

Corn needs 150 to 200 pounds of Nitrogen per acre in order to produce a yield of 120 to 200 bushels per acre. Most of Nitrogen has to be supplied as fertilizer unless a previous legume crop has built up the soil's nitrogen supply...

Legume Crop?

Yes...

Legume Crops like vegetative legumes, shrub legumes and tree legumes are known as Nitrogen fixing plants. Without going into details, they replenish the soil with nitrogen that corn needs in turn to grow.

I found all this out with only a couple minute research on the web... The average Haitian farmer doesn't have access to the Internet and I don't really see a whole lot of AGRO businesses in my neck of the woods, you know, businesses who would sell seeds and fertilizers to the Haitian farmers and would also educate them somewhat.

Now I am thinking... Maybe that's why Haitian farmers plant 'PWA' (beens) together with corn. This knowledge perhaps has been passed down to them but I'll be honest with you... I have never heard any Haitian farmer mention the words 'NITROGEN' to me in my lifetime.

My question to you is: Do you think the average Haitian farmer know how much Nitrogen Corn Needs to Grow?

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