Liberia’s former Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Chris Toe has invested on a little over 200 acres of land with the purpose of planting oil palms and producing variety of oil for both domestic use and export in about five to six years.

For a farmer, good information is time sensitive. Good information must move quickly and freely to reach those who rely on it when they make decisions. Digital technologies have revolutionized the way information travels worldwide, and the increasing availability of the mobile phone in particular, is allowing better information to reach greater numbers of people than ever before. Several innovative programs are demonstrating the immense impact that simplest asset—timely and accurate information—can have on farmer’s livelihoods.

The Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Patricia Rader, has asked Liberians to see agriculture not only as a source of food, but also a business that brings income to people.

Farmers in Bong County, Central Liberia have attributed their reluctance to grow more agricultural produce to bad farm-to-market road networks in the county.