The Inquirer (Monrovia)
25 April 2008
With looming food crisis and stringent economic conditions prevailing, Church Aid Inc (CAI) is urging farmers across the country to take advantage of vegetable seeds available at the organization's offices in Brewerville, Montserrado County in order "to sow seeds to fight hunger" in Liberia.
With quarter of a million packs of seeds worth about a million dollars expected in the country in six weeks, Church Aid is urging potential farmers in the fifteen counties of Liberia to register and benefit from 14 varieties of seeds to include collards green, okras, cabbage, pepper, watermelon, mustard, peas, eggplant, onion, cucumber, amongst others.
Of the quarter of a million vegetable seeds expected during this planting season, about fifty thousand packets have already arrived. These seeds will include one hundred and eighty thousand packs of beans, collard, cucumber, eggplant, cabbage, okra and watermelon combined.
Church Aid will manage project through two sub-programs, namely: General distribution (GD) to target individual farmers and gardeners who will benefit from 80% of the seeds while the Special projects (SP), constituting about 20% of seeds donated, will target schools, churches, religious and community-based groups, NGOs amongst others throughout the country.
Church Aid will work along with her traditional and potential partners in the distribution of the seeds. Church Aid is the relief and development department of the New Water in the Desert Assembly (NWIDA) of the Apostolic Pentecostal International (APC).
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