Liberia: Peri Urban Farmer Engages in Vegetables Production

Smith Falsee, a father of four, has spent many years growing vegetables in his Barnersville community, a suburb of Monrovia, for income in order to sustain his family.

This farming season, with meager resources, he has planted a variety of vegetables including bitter-ball, pepper, corn, okra and cabbage. But Falsee is faced with financial constraints to purchase fertilizers to apply in order to boost yield.

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