Let’s Subsidize the Farmer
By Guest Contributors, Abdullah Dukuly & Bai Best

Published:  24 April, 2008

There is a rising public interest in growing and eating locally-grown produce, an exercise that will help Government save millions of dollars on the importation of food. Mr. Clarence Adolphus Moore, a small-scale cash crop farmer, grows cassava, plantain, yams, potatoes and rice on 200 acres of land in Tubmanburg, Bomi County. He says Liberia's declining farming industry needs a big prop-up to ensure self-sufficiency in food production. With about 30 people working with him, he said he started his venture last February, cultivating cassava which is now being harvested.

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