{"id":203099,"date":"2025-07-23T21:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-farmers-in-boinsen-district-bong-county-transition-to-lowland-amidst-challenges\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:30:55","slug":"liberia-farmers-in-boinsen-district-bong-county-transition-to-lowland-amidst-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-farmers-in-boinsen-district-bong-county-transition-to-lowland-amidst-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Farmers in Boinsen District, Bong County Transition to Lowland, Amidst Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Smallholder farmers in Boinsen District, Electoral District One, Bong County are reportedly lacking access to farming resources such as improved seeds and tools needed to improve productivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">However, with the help of Mr. Kesseh Yeleboe, a district native now living in the United States, the farmers are being mobilized and supported for lowland rice cultivation with the hope of growing more food to support their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mr. Yeleboe established the Foundation a few years ago, with the hope of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507230649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smallholder farmers in Boinsen District, Electoral District One, Bong County are reportedly lacking access to farming resources such as improved seeds and tools needed to improve productivity. However, with the help of Mr. Kesseh Yeleboe, a district native now living in the United States, the farmers are being mobilized and supported for lowland rice cultivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,51939,2960,6977,5091,8614,3030,4712,1107,44384,257,254,9711],"class_list":["post-203099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boinsen","tag-bong","tag-challenges","tag-county","tag-district","tag-farmers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lowland","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transition"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}