LIBERIA IS A country with fertile soil that grows abundant food crops to sustain its citizenry and foreign residents; provided Liberians are willing to honor green revolution to showcase nationwide substantive food production.
IT IS NO secret that heeding to such green revolution is on the overall, the responsibility of our government to prioritize all it takes to get the citizens on their feet in turning the soil into farming activities; diversifying food crops at different levels across the country, depending on which crops grow where.
WE RECALL THAT during the regime of Samuel Kanyon Doe in the 80s, local government authorities up to the town level were made to cultivate commune farms for self-sufficiency in food production in the country.
BEYOND THE REGIME of Mr. Doe, the William R. Tolbert administration was very supportive of agriculture activities when cash crops and other food crops were cultivated by farmers as cooperatives competed to get relevance on the national scene.
THOSE WERE THE days when Lofa, Bong and Nimba Counties were at the helm of food production in Liberia, thus bringing proud to the country and its people in terms of making maximum use of the soil as a natural bank for growth and development.
UNFORTUNATELY THOUGH, THE devastating civil war ruined the country and our dependency syndrome not only on foreign aids in materials, education, security, finances, etc but in food security has often increased and made us vulnerable in the eyes of the outside world.
SINCE THE CIVIL war elapsed, Liberia has had several regimes but repositioning itself in the agriculture showground is still far from reality, a situation we think needs total solution for guaranteed food security.
THEREFORE, WE ENCOURAGE our current government to make every action plan for agriculture workable, void of lip service and waste of taxpayersβ monies while our fertile soil cannot be tapped for resounding yields to feed ourselves.
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