President Boakai Activates National Agriculture Plan To Stop Food Imports

Monrovia, Liberia –

Presiding over a high-stakes cabinet session themed around leveraging agriculture for sustainable livelihood improvements, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai activated an aggressive structural directive targeting national food self-sufficiency. The head of state ordered all public ministries to immediately scale up institutional logistics and extension funding to systematically eliminate Liberia’s massive annual import bill for basic staple goods.

The comprehensive executive roadmap places smallholder farmers and rural youth cooperatives at the absolute center of the state development model. Under the administration's ARREST Agenda, the Ministry of Agriculture is deploying technical teams to supply improved seed varieties, expand mechanization equipment, and repair farm-to-market road infrastructure. This initiative aims to address weak logistics that historically fuel massive post-harvest losses.

President Boakai emphasized that transforming farming from subsistence labor into a highly viable commercial enterprise is an absolute requirement to protect state sovereignty. The centralized strategy integrates a digital data system tracking over fifty thousand rural producers to connect them directly to urban commercial markets. By boosting local output of rice and cassava, the state secures long-term economic independence.

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