-Dr. AkintayoDr. Innousa Akintayo, Country Director of Africa Rice, an agricultural based organization has said that introducing new technologies of farming in agriculture will make Liberia a food secured nation. Africa Rice, in collaboration with Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Commercialization Project (SAPEC), recently introduced new farming technologies meant to boost rice production in the country. The new farming technologies, focused on food security and poverty alleviation through capacity-building to boost local production of rice, is also expected to help reveal many potentials in the country’s Agriculture Sector, especially in the production of rice. Dr. Akintayo said that rice farmers are to benefit from climate change, resilient rice varieties and modern land preparation technologies. The new technologies are not strange to other countries except Liberia, because local farmers are into subsistence farming rather than commercial.

Source: Daily Observer March 07, 2018 02:26 UTC