By Josiah Pailay/ Contact: [email protected]  | +231 881 913 880 / +231 775 260 307 As Bong County Technical College (BCTC) prepares for its 2025 commencement, final-year agriculture student Susan Sianneh Lake is approaching the culmination of a thesis project that exemplifies the nexus of academic research, practical application, and national development goals.  Her lowland rice field experiment, located within …

By: Richard Williams/0775339618 / 0881084573/[email protected] Gbarpolu County, Liberia – Farmers in Gbaryama and Karlo towns, Bopolu District, are raising urgent alarms over repeated invasions by wild elephants, which have not only devastated their farms but are also threatening the region’s fragile food security and economic resilience. For the past two farming seasons, residents of these forest-fringed communities have endured significant …

Executive Mansion Press Release:  President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has taken a decisive step toward enhancing Liberia’s food security by signing Executive Order No. 149, which establishes the National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA). This landmark executive action underscores the government’s commitment to eradicating hunger, improving nutrition, and ensuring food security for all Liberians as part of the ARREST Agenda. Executive …

By: Nukanah Kollie /[email protected] Bong County, Liberia – As Liberia’s poultry sector continues to grow and play an essential role in food security and rural livelihoods, it is now facing a serious challenge: recurring outbreaks of deadly poultry diseases, most notably Newcastle disease, commonly referred to by farmers as “chicken sickness.” According to Mr. Roland Varkpeh, Director of Animal Production …

By: Moses Geply/ Maryland County Harper, Maryland County – With its rich soil and abundance of water, Maryland is a region where agriculture is at the heartbeat of daily life.  As a manifestation of this, a new generation of youths is stepping up in this southeastern county of Liberia to protect the environment, and they’re doing it with the right …

By Nukanah Kollie | [email protected]  Suakoko, Bong County – In a bold push to reclaim its domestic poultry market and reduce reliance on imports, Liberia’s poultry industry stakeholders recently convened a five-day pre-validation exercise for its long-stalled National Poultry Strategy—a move hailed as a pivotal moment in the country’s agricultural reform agenda. Held at the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) …

By: Wilmot Konah/  0555666441 / 0775793638/ Email: [email protected] The Director General of the Liberia Agriculture Commodity Regulatory Authority (LACRA), Christopher Sankolo, has disclosed plans to amend the Act that established the government agency. According to Sankolo, the current LACRA Act does not adequately align with the government’s ARREST Agenda, which seeks to promote agricultural development and improve the livelihoods of …

By Jefferson Massah,  [email protected] Earlier this year, I found myself walking through endless rows of neatly planted avocado trees on a commercial farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The fresh morning air, the precision with which the trees were spaced, and the buzz of activity around the farm all spoke one thing loud and clear: avocados mean business. As the …

By Nathan Kollie/ [email protected] / 0881062345 / 0776735197. Botota, Bong County —  Joseph Jimmy Sankaituah, Founder and CEO of Lucky Agro & Bioenergy Group of Companies (LABGC), is urging the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Agriculture, to scale up support to smallholder farmers across the country, asserting that such an initiative is essential for increasing food production and …

By LAEJN Editorial Team  Monrovia, Liberia – May 5, 2025 – In a continued effort to foster sustainable and responsible investment in Liberia’s agriculture sector, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations convened a high-level multi-stakeholder dialogue on Monday, May 5, 2025, in Monrovia. The forum focused on reviewing the Liberia Investment and Investor Screening Toolkit—a vital …