Italy has extended $10 million dollars to help boost food production over the next three years in Sierra Leone, the Agriculture Minister Sam Sesay said on February 18.
The deal will help "significantly contribute to food security through support for a modern competitive and commercially vibrant agriculture sector," Sesay said.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will provide the technical back-up to the scheme.
Other states set to benefit from similar Italian-backed projects in the region include Mali, Senegal, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau, according to the Italian fund's representative in Freetown, Arturo Rollo.
Battling to re-build six years after a brutal civil war, Sierra Leone is ranked the least developed country in the world under the UN Human Development Index.
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