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Agriculture is Liberia’s comparative advantage and has also been identified as one of our major poverty-alleviation instruments because it will lead us to self-sufficiency in food production and self-employment, as well as open doors for industrialization.
President George M. Weah may have left detractors dumbfounded when he eloquently presented Liberia’s development case during his first address at the 73rd U.N. General Assembly in New York on September 26, 2018.
The Liberian leader was straight to the point and emphatic in stressing that agriculture is Liberia’s comparative advantage.
Weah, who has been on the receiving end of negative propagandas, dazzled his critics with articulacy when he informed a gathering of World leaders that his government has identified Agriculture as a comparative advantage to Liberia’s overall development drive.
With the implementation of a new Special Economic Zone, we intend to attract labor-intensive light manufacturing”, he intoned vigorously.
He recounted “the challenges of leadership are enormous, but in each and every one of these challenges, I see opportunities to make things better and to bring permanent improvement to the lives of all Liberians, as we devise policies and programs that will have a lasting and positive impact on the lives of our citizens”.