By LAEJN Editorial Team The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), through its Rural Economic Transformation Project (RETRAP), has expanded efforts to commercialize agriculture with the harvesting of cassava from two pilot cluster farms in Pokundu, Grand Cape Mount County, and Kakata in Margibi County. The harvest represents the first major output from four pilot cassava cluster farms established under RETRAP, an …

By LAEJN Editorial Team Liberia’s agriculture sector remains overwhelmingly dependent on smallholder farmers using traditional production methods, with limited access to modern inputs, irrigation, mechanization, and basic social services, according to the Liberia Agriculture Census 2024. Conducted by the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and other key partners, the …

By LAEJN Editorial Team For years, Esther David, a fishmonger in Newcess Town, Grand Bassa County, lived from one uncertain day to the next. Each morning, she headed to the market not knowing whether she would return home with enough money to feed her family, let alone save for the future. On good days, she sold fish and earned a …