{"id":216926,"date":"2025-12-17T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/west-africa-liberia-strengthens-agro-processing-sme-export-readiness\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:01:59","slug":"west-africa-liberia-strengthens-agro-processing-sme-export-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/west-africa-liberia-strengthens-agro-processing-sme-export-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Liberia Strengthens Agro-Processing, SME Export Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Government of Liberia has reiterated its commitment to transforming the country&#8217;s agriculture sector from raw commodity production to value-added agro-processing, emphasizing policies and initiatives aimed at boosting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and improving export readiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Speaking at the 2025 MSMEs Conference held from December 8-10, Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Alexander J. Nuetah, praised Liberian entrepreneurs for their efforts in value addition, noting that the quality&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512160636.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>The Government of Liberia has reiterated its commitment to transforming the country&#8217;s agriculture sector from raw commodity production to value-added agro-processing, emphasizing policies and initiatives aimed at boosting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and improving export readiness. Speaking at the 2025 MSMEs Conference held from December 8-10, Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Alexander J. Nuetah, praised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216927,"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":[258,256,18808,10346,4712,1107,257,6382,10104,254,11921,4375],"class_list":["post-216926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agroprocessing","tag-export","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-readiness","tag-sme","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthens","tag-west"],"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\/216926","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=216926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}