By Othello S. Nimely
Monrovia-October 14, 2025: In a bid to revive Liberia’s agricultural sector to its pre-war standing, the Liberia Agricultural Commodity Regulatory Authority (LACRA) has launched a capacity-building coaching for its High quality Management Officers and Produce Inspectors.
The workshop, organized by LACRA’s Division of Operations underneath the management of Deputy Director Basic Alpha Gongolee, focuses on strengthening the technical abilities of employees in areas similar to sampling, inspection, grading, and high quality management requirements.
Talking on the opening session on October 14, 2025, Performing Director Basic Dan Sayee emphasised that the establishment is taking main steps to enhance the standard of cocoa produced in Liberia, transferring from Grade Two to Grade One. “For too lengthy, Liberia has been producing Grade Two cocoa. The time has come to improve and match worldwide requirements,” Sayee acknowledged.
He revealed that LACRA is working intently with Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to determine a regional cocoa, espresso, and oil palm bloc that aligns with world market necessities. The partnership, he famous, will strengthen Liberia’s competitiveness within the agricultural commodity commerce.
Cross-section of contributors
Sayee additional disclosed that LACRA via it companions, has developed a cell software designed to observe the acquisition and sale of cocoa, espresso, and palm merchandise throughout the nation. He added that the app will quickly be launched, and employees will obtain coaching on easy methods to successfully use the brand new expertise.
The Performing Director Basic inspired contributors to stay dedicated to their duties, stressing that their exhausting work and dedication would sooner or later make them “among the many finest inspectors and high quality management officers within the nation.”
The continued two-day coaching which covers key areas similar to high quality management requirements, sampling strategies, inspection methods, and product grading, is being held at an area corridor in Paynesville.
Additionally talking on the occasion, Fredrick Gibson, representing the United Nations Industrial Growth Group (UNIDO)-one of LACRA’s key companions, pledged UNIDO’s steady dedication to serving to Liberia’s cocoa and occasional sectors meet worldwide requirements.
Gibson emphasised that UNIDO is devoted to empowering smallholder farmers to entry aggressive and related markets. He urged farmers to not view agriculture as a poor man’s occupation however fairly as a worthwhile and transformative trade able to driving nationwide progress.
Contributors on the workshop
Encouraging the contributors, Gibson known as on them to goal increased and imagine of their potential, noting that with exhausting work and dedication, they will change into among the finest professionals in Liberia’s agricultural sector.
The initiative kinds a part of LACRA’s broader imaginative and prescient to strengthen Liberia’s agricultural commodity trade and be sure that domestically produced items meet worldwide high quality benchmarks.
