The United Nations rural development arm is to provide a $24.9 million loan to Liberia to improve the West African country's cocoa and coffee production in an effort to alleviate poverty among rural communities recovering from the effects of past conflicts.
The funds from the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will finance a programme dubbed the "tree crop revitalisation support project" in Liberia, where the development of agriculture is a national priority of the Government.
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