{"id":220710,"date":"2026-01-16T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sdca-trains-certifies-seed-growers-to-strengthen-liberias-agricultural-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:07:40","slug":"liberia-sdca-trains-certifies-seed-growers-to-strengthen-liberias-agricultural-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sdca-trains-certifies-seed-growers-to-strengthen-liberias-agricultural-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: SDCA Trains, Certifies Seed Growers to Strengthen Liberia&#8217;s Agricultural Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In a country where agriculture remains the backbone of rural livelihoods, yet productivity has long lagged behind potential, the Seed Development and Certification Agency (SDCA) have taken a decisive step to address one of Liberia&#8217;s most persistent challenges: farmers&#8217; access to quality, reliable seeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Last week, the SDCA successfully certified a new cadre of local seed specialists following a specialized training program aimed at enhancing the roles, responsibilities, and compliance capacity of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160599.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>In a country where agriculture remains the backbone of rural livelihoods, yet productivity has long lagged behind potential, the Seed Development and Certification Agency (SDCA) have taken a decisive step to address one of Liberia&#8217;s most persistent challenges: farmers&#8217; access to quality, reliable seeds. Last week, the SDCA successfully certified a new cadre of local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220711,"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":[258,256,8375,8665,17922,4712,1107,8536,257,53426,5991,14322,254,6433,7055],"class_list":["post-220710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agricultural","tag-growers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-sdca","tag-sector","tag-seed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-trains"],"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\/220710","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=220710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}