Grand Gedeh County, Sept. 7 -- The Rubber Planters Association of Liberia (RPAL), with funding from the Government of Liberia through the Rubber Development Fund Incorporated (RDFI), has begun distributing root-trainers for the establishment of 28 budwood nurseries in seven underserved counties across southeast and northern Liberia.

By: Yawah Y. Jaivey

The nurseries are being established through farmer cooperatives in Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru, Maryland, River Gee, Rivercess, Sinoe, and Lofa counties.

Galima G. Taylor, Executive Director of the Rubber planters Association of Liberia (RPAL), speaking recently during the distribution of thousands of root-trainers in the seven counties, disclosed that the beneficiary farmer cooperatives are ...