Liberia: Agriculture boss stresses implementation of strategies

Published 2023년 5월 24일

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Liberia's Ministry of Agriculture is pushing for the implementation of research findings in rice production to achieve food self-sufficiency. The ministry's Chief, Jeanine M. Cooper, highlighted the failure of many international projects to deliver results after the trial stage. She stressed the importance of replicating these trials by farmers for successful outcomes. This call to action was made during a meeting for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Improving Rice Production for Smallholders Project (LibRice). The project, which started in the previous year, is designed to boost local rice production and is collaborating with over 2,000 farmers in Bong County.

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-To boost rice production here Liberia's Ministry of Agriculture, Madam Jeanine M. Cooper, stresses the urgent need to ensure self-sufficiency in food and believes that can only be achieved when the country gravitates from trials and researches to real implementation strategies. While it is true that some of these many projects, especially internationally-supported projects are most often successful in trial states, Madam Cooper observes that in most cases, they are rarely successful in their real implementation stage. Predicated upon this, she suggests that these trials should be replicated for real farmers to have good results out of the soil and enhance massive local food production, especially the country's staple food; rice. Minister Cooper spoke Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Improving Rice Production for Smallholders Project (LibRice) project joint coordination meeting held at the Ministry of Agriculture in Monrovia. "We are ...

Source: All Africa