{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "haiti-ht",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GC-10",
  "GC-11",
  "GC-12",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "harvest_windows: empty on purpose (no filed source gives a root-harvest season). Haitian oil is “the most commercialized worldwide” (docs/sources/GC-10-barcellos-silva-2025-vetiver.md:19).",
 "place": {
  "value": "Haiti",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:205",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q790 (Haiti)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": "the Les Cayes commune, in the south",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-11",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-11-ouyang-2021-vetiver-smelling-principle.md:16",
  "quote": "Despite a price of 350–500 $/kg, its worldwide consumption is estimated at 300–400 t/year, of which 60 % comes from the Les Cayes commune of Haiti.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "GC-11 attributes 60 % of an estimated world consumption to Les Cayes (not shown). “In the south” is general geography, not the source’s words"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Haiti",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:206",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 19,
  "lon": -72.8,
  "precision": "a representative point for the country (Wikidata P625, a centroid), not a field; the growing area on record is Les Cayes",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q790 (Haiti) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:209",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "America/Port-au-Prince",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:212",
  "quote": "HT\t+1832-07220\tAmerica/Port-au-Prince",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": "the world’s first exporter of vetiver; many families live directly from it",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-12",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-12-burger-2017-vetiver-cosmetics.md:19",
  "quote": "Haiti is the world’s first exporter of vetiver and more than 50,000 families are totally and directly dependent on this resource for their living [15].",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "a sentence cited to a news article; its family count is not shown"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "chrysopogon-zizanioides"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-5-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-vetiver",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Haiti is the leading source of vetiver oil on record: the world’s first exporter, with much of the oil coming from the Les Cayes commune.",
  "body": [
   "Many families live directly from the crop. No harvest season is given. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the country, not a field."
  ]
 }
}