Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, President of Liberia, will today officially inaugurate Liberia’s first industrial rice processing and
warehousing facility, Fabrar Liberia Inc., in Kakata, Margibi County, alongside
U.S Ambassador to Liberia, Deborah Malac, NiajaAgroNet reports.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that with financial and
technical support from the U.S. Government through the USAID Food and
Enterprise Development (USAID FED) program and private equity financing from
West Africa Venture Fund in 2014, Fabrar Liberia Inc. was able to procure an
automated rice processing plant and expand its warehouse facilities.
The USAID FED Program, NaijaAgroNet learnt is implemented
in six counties: Bong, Nimba, Lofa, Grand Bassa, Margibi and Montserrado and
aims to reduce hunger and promote food security by increasing agricultural
productivity and profitability of food crops (rice, cassava, vegetables, and
goats), stimulating enterprise development and building agriculture workforce.
As against the previous supply of rice entirely
by foreign imports due to a lack of domestic supply, NaijaAgroNet gathered that,
the Liberia Government through the industrial rice processing and warehousing facility
and Fabrar Liberia Inc. would market rice to local consumers in Monrovia and
throughout the country.
Fabrar Liberia Inc. (Fabrar) was fully
incorporated 2009, as Liberian owned and run agriculture holding firm to tackle
food insecurity in Liberia by improving the livelihoods of farmers and
providing them with increased access to domestic and international food markets
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