Liberia: '2019-2020 Draft Budget Does Not Prioritize Agriculture'

-- Says Rice Value Chain Developer

President George M. Weah in what appeared to be a prerecorded nationwide address on May 19, 2019, described agriculture as critical to the transformation of the Liberian economy. As such, he promised that there would be an increase in the 2019/2020 national budget for agriculture as the beginning of his administration's move toward said agricultural transformation.

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