By: Ramsey N, Singbeh, Jr., in Margibi
Margibi, Liberia, November 13, 2024 – An emerging local agriculture group in Margibi County, Women of Success Agriculture Farm, urges all Liberians to cultivate farms if the country should feed its citizens.
Madam Rose L. Kamara, Chief Executive Officer, says Liberia is in a new era, so Liberians must work together to improve the motherland and make it self-sufficient.
Speaking to reporters over the weekend in David Jackson Town, situated in the Chinese Farm Region of Cinta Township, Margibi County, she said that despite an individual’s background, one must have a farm.
“We just want to encourage [fellow] Liberians that this is a new era; we all must, it’s a matter of must that we work together to improve our country and to be self-sufficient. It doesn’t matter who you are, you can be a lawyer, a politician, a doctor, you can still have your farm. You can be a minister, it’s important to have a farm because no matter how educated you are, there comes a time, if you can remember during the war, we had all the money, but we could not even find food. We had all the books in our heads, everyone was hungry. People were eating palm kernels; we saw a minister eating palm kernels.”
Madam Kamara notes that food is vital for humans, stressing the need for all Liberians to return to the soil.
She was speaking when the project was officially launched, and a rice farm was ready for harvest, with the Margibi Agriculture Coordinator, partners, and some locals in attendance.
CEO Kamara, backed by her husband, Sam F Kamara, in supervising the project, says the project has lasted for a few years. It involves a group of women who have been in the business of producing cassava, corn, and potatoes before venturing into rice production.
She explains that they decided to produce the nation’s stable rice to complement the government’s efforts to make her citizens self-sufficient in food.
She reveals that the government gave them a minimum contribution to sustain the project, adding that they plan to sell seed rice to others. She expresses optimism that the government, through the Margibi Agriculture Coordinator, has promised to assist in connecting them to buyers.
Meanwhile, Margibi Agriculture Coordinator E. Musu Tuah Yung welcomes the project and promises the government’s unflinching support.
She also rates the farm as number one amongst the government’s partnered agriculture farms in Margibi.
She then cut the ribbon to launch the project officially and declared the rice farm ready to harvest as she joined the women in harvesting some portion of the rice. Editing by Jonathan Browne
