As part of its farmers support initiative ACDI-VOCA, an international
organization has launched a six-month agriculture radio program project
in Bong and Nimba Counties, with funding from the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID).
The radio project, which is under ACDI-VOCA's Agriculture for
Children Empowerment (ACE) program, is collaborating with two community
radio stations, Radio Gbarnga in Bong and Radio Saclapea in Nimba County
as a platform to broadcast messages within the two counties.
The project will focus on innovative agricultural best practices,
increase flows of reliable information within the vegetable and rice
value chains, and facilitate closer interactions between smallholder
farmers and value chain actors.
Speaking at the launch of the radio project in Saclepea, Nimba
County, the Director for ACDI-VOCA Agriculture for Children Empowerment
Project, Laveto Akoi-Forkpa, said the initiative was designed primarily
to enable smallholder farmers in the two counties have access to
relevant information that promotes farming as a business to enhance
their livelihood.
He indicated that access to updated information by smallholder
farmers in Liberia on innovative agricultural practices is limited. In
most cases, their primary source of information remains their friends
and family network and occasionally government agriculture extension
officers and NGOs staff.
(Source : The News, Monrovia, Liberia via allAfrica.com)
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