Written by Matthias Daffah
July 2010
Source Star Radio Liberia
The Liberia Cocoa Corporation has begun work on another thirty million US dollar cash crop plantation in Quadu Gbondi District, Lofa County.
The Corporation’s General Manger Winston Tolbert told Star Radio the plantation will yield both Ivorian and Ghanaian hybrid cocoa.
Mr. Tolbert disclosed nearly sixty-five hectares of cocoa have already been planted on the plantation.
The management of the corporation has hired three hundred fifteen laborers, mainly youth from all over Liberia.
Our correspondent observed several Ghanaians and Ivorian plantation experts have also begun arriving at the newly established cocoa plantation.
The Ghanaian and Ivorian experts are to assist in laying-out the plantation’s blocking system.
The establishment of the plantation is to enhance government’s poverty reduction strategy.
Twelve million US dollars will be used on the first phase of the plantation’s operations.
