RICE - Haiti Food Shopping - Gode Diri - Rice Measuring Cup

Trying to buy rice retails in Haiti? look out for this measuring cup (gode) used for selling rice. In the Haitian marketplace (nan mache) rice is not sold by the pound. Nope! You have to buy by the gode.

In the Capital, Port-au-Prince, they sell rice by 'Ti Mamit' and 'Gro mamit,' in the market places across the Haitian provinces rice sells by 'demi gode' (half cup) and gode (1 cup).

Have you heard? Millet or pitimi in Haiti, the stuff you used to hate to eating as a child in Haiti, now costs more than twice the price of rice!

Read: Haiti - Yon gode pitimi koute 60 gourdes! (the price of millet is sky high)

Did you know... More than 80 percent of rice consumed in Haiti is imported and most of the rice consumed in Haiti comes from the United States. Haiti keeps importing more and more rice every year since 1986 despite the new government's promise to increase local rice production.

Read: Haiti Rice Import: More than 80 percent of the rice consumption is imported

There is a strong foreign demand for high-quality organic rice, says Fabias Voltaire, a 37-year-old Haitian entrepreneur. It may cost more, but many regard it as healthier and better-tasting than American varieties.

Read: Haiti Agriculture - There is money to be made growing rice, some entrepreneurs say

There has been a significant increase in the Haitian rice production in the Artibonite region this past year since the launch of President Jovenel Moise's Caravan Changement in the area.

Read: Haiti Agriculture - Artibonite RICE Production UP by 30 percent

In Port-au-Prince Haiti, food shoppers and vendors alike are complaining about the sharp increase in food prices these days... everything is expensive, really expensive, rice, beans, sugar, you name it... "With such high prices on the local market, people will starve," one vendor told newspaper Le Nouvelliste...

Read: Haiti Economy - FOOD Prices Sky HIGH in Port-au-Prince, Buyers and Sellers are Screaming

No doubt, "Du Riz Sheila" is my favorite rice. It is one the best one out there. Very light, you get that heavy feeling after you it. Even if you...

Read: Haitian Rice "Du Riz Sheila" is my favorite rice

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