The Tuesday Podcast: Haiti's Rice Market Is A Mess. Farmers'
Kids Go Hungry.  Haiti rice  hide captionA Haitian farmer dries
rice in the sun.  Adam Davidson/NPR  On today's Planet Money:
The people selling rice in Port-au-Prince say business is
terrible. So we travel to l'Artibonite, Haiti's rice country, to
learn more.  There are lots of problems with Haiti's rice
market. Since the earthquake, free rice from foreign aid groups
has made it harder for Haitian farmers to sell what they grow.
Even before the earthquake, they had a hard time competing with
foreign rice, which is produced using high-output, modern
farming techniques that aren't available in Haiti.  As we noted
last week, some rice farmers find themselves forced to choose
between keeping enough rice for their children to eat, and
selling enough rice to pay for their children to go to school.
Some — including Mirana Honorable, shown below — are choosing to
pay for school, in hopes their children can find a life outside
of farming.  Download the p