{"id":15583,"date":"2026-06-20T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-acai-trains-liberian-extension-workers-on-weed-management-and-agronomy-best-practices\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:31:33","slug":"iita-acai-trains-liberian-extension-workers-on-weed-management-and-agronomy-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-acai-trains-liberian-extension-workers-on-weed-management-and-agronomy-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA-ACAI trains Liberian extension workers on weed management and agronomy best practices"},"content":{"rendered":"As part of efforts to transform the Liberian cassava sector, a team from the\u00a0IITA<\/a>-led\u00a0African Cassava Agronomy Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(ACAI) trained about 70 extension service providers from across Liberia in Bentol, Montserrado County. The training, which took place in October 2019, centered on the IITA-ACAI developed agronomy toolkit known as the\u00a0Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management and Best Planting Practices<\/em>\u00a0which, when applied, helps farmers to potentially double their cassava yield per hectare.\n
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Liberian extension workers at the training.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nACAI Principal Weed Scientist,\u00a0Friday Ekeleme<\/a>, conducted the training along with Digital Extension and Advisory Services Specialist,\u00a0Godwin Atser<\/a>, IITA Head of Mechanization,\u00a0\u00a0<\/u>Peter Kolawole<\/a>, and IITA Country Representative in Liberia,\u00a0\u00a0<\/u>Michael Edet<\/a>.\n\nThe training was carried out within the framework of the Smallholder Agriculture Productivity Enhancement and Commercialization (SAPEC) Project of the Liberian Ministry of Agriculture with funding from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and the\u00a0Banque africaine de d\u00e9veloppement<\/a>\u00a0(AfDB).\n\nThe 4-day training exposed participants to the successes of the IITA Cassava Weed Management Project, the basics of agronomy in cassava farming systems, calibration and the use of the IITA Herbicides Calculator, safe use of herbicides, an overview of mechanization, and cassava varietal identification.\n\nSAPEC Coordinator, William Kawalawu, described the training as an excellent program that would help transform cassava in Liberia and provide incomes to farmers.\n\nLike Nigeria, the cassava sector in Liberia has been undermined by poor weed control. Hand weeding, often carried out by women, is not only backbreaking but also limits farm sizes in Liberia.\n\nEdet said the workshop was intended to provide participants with basic knowledge of cassava production and especially weed management.\n\n\u201cThis is part of what we are supposed to do in the SAPEC Project, to empower the farmers, the focal persons, technicians with the knowledge on weed control because weeding consumes a lot of money and as such farmers run away from cassava farms as the result of the huge cost of the control of weed,\u201d he said.\n\nMrs Abibatu Kromah, a director with Liberia\u2019s Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI), appealed to IITA to provide support to help Liberian farmers tackle weeds. \u201cDo not leave us alone,\u201d she pleaded.\n\nThe training attracted participants including County Agriculture Coordinators (CAC), SAPEC focal persons, technicians, farmer-based organizations, cassava farmers, the National Cassava Production and Commercialization Union, and stakeholders with an interest in cassava farming.\n\nThe participants were drawn from eight of Liberia\u2019s 15 counties including Bomi, Bong, Grand Bassa, Margibi, Montserrado, and Sinoe.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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