Success Story: Liberian Grandmother is a Giant in Farmer Field Schools
“Thank God for STCP [the Sustainable Tree Crops Program] that allowed me to get six large bags of cocoa to sell for the first time since 1990,” says Farmer Field School graduate Mrs. Kartuah Sehweah.
The 68-year old widow with eight children and grandchildren uses the extra income to pay her grandchildren’s school fees.
Mrs. Sehweah lives in Nimba County, Liberia, an area hard hit by the civil conflict during which many people left their farms. Mrs. Sehweah was the only woman out of 28 participants in her Farmer Field School session, but her male colleagues looked up to her calling her a “giant in the Farmer Field School.”
She was eager to learn and apply the new techniques to her 3 acre farm. Reflecting on what she learned she noted, “I did not know that the diseases we see on the trees could be controlled.” Mrs. Sehweah was one of 349 farmers in Nimba County to complete 10 months of farmer training last year.
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