Monrovia, March 12 -- Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah has clarified the status of a longstanding compensation arrangement involving farmers whose rubber trees were removed during the expansion of the Liberia Agriculture Company (LAC) plantation in Grand Bassa County.

The clarification was made during a meeting with community elders, residents of affected communities and representatives of LAC following concerns raised by residents of Compound #3 and surrounding communities, who recently wrote the Ministry of Agriculture seeking government intervention in the matter.

Addressing the gathering, Minister Nuetah explained that available records at the Ministry indicate that the compensation process originated in 2004 when a gove...