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Liberian President Impressed with China-Aid Demonstration Farm on Vegetables Cultivation
2010-02-07 03:44
 

Monrovia, Liberia, Feb.05--Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on her people to learn from the practice and success story of two Chinese agriculture experts on vegetables cultivation.

President Sirleaf made her remarks Friday following a tour of the China-aid demonstration farm located at the SKD Statium compound near the suburb of capital Monrovia. Earlier, Ambassador Yuxiao and the two agriculture experts of the farm guided President Sirleaf on a tour of the vegetables cultivation demonstration farm, which since last year has been successfully making production of several kinds of vegetables as cucumber, eggplants etc..

She obverved that such a demonstration farm should be served as a motivation for Liberian young people to imitate and participate in the self-sufficient agriculture development. The Liberian President said she was impressed with the progress and high-yielding production of the farm cultivated by two Chinese agriculture experts within the SKD Compound.

In the media interview following the tour, the Chinese Ambassador to Liberia, His Excellency Zhou Yuxiao said the program is a further manifestation of the willingness of China side to identify itself with Liberia in its Poverty Reduction Strategy by making some meaningful experiments and demonstrztion of vegetables cultivation in the area of agriculture, and assured that China would continue to help Liberia in a very practical way.


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