Country: Priority Initiatives and Recovery Plan

country: Increasing agricultural productivity is one of the 146 priority initiatives included in the country economic recovery plan, also known as the president recovery priorities, according to The Guardian. If all goes well, many farmers will double their production this year. The farmer is optimistic that it will be a record yield. The country spends more than $110m annually on importing rice. While Sierra Leone is still a long way from being self-sufficient in its staple food, initiatives such as providing farmers with improved seed rice and fertiliser are part of an extensive plan to jump-start Sierra Leone agricultural sector. In 2014, this represented 4.8% of the country imports, second to refined petroleum. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.