Monrovia - GROW-Liberia, as part of its support to improving the agriculture sector of Liberia has form a robust partnership with the Liberia Agriculture regulatory Authority, formerly the Liberia Marketing and Produce Corporation (LPMC) that will benefit over 3000 thousand cocoa farmers in Liberia. GROW is a private sector development initiative operating in Liberia to promote pro-poor economic growth and stability through partnerships with the private sector. According to GROW’S Team Leader, Yoqual Lavala, under the partnership; his entity is rendering support to the LPMC and local cocoa farmers in Bong, Lofa and Nimba Counties to boost the production of cocoa in Liberia. He asserted that part of his agency’s mandate is to ensure that Liberia cocoa is certified and farmers are given the fair share of their produce and trained to bargain their products. “We conducted a market survey analysis within the cocoa sector and we find out that warehousing was a major problem.

Source: Front Page Africa October 14, 2017 23:37 UTC