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Jeanine Cooper

FABRAR Liberia

Rice Processing, Agribusiness

Signal

Region
Liberia
Industry
Rice Processing, Agribusiness
Source file
profiles/liberia_business_people.md:223
Status
published

Economic impact

Co-founded FABRAR Liberia in 2009, establishing the country's first commercial-scale rice processing mill at a site in Margibi County. The mill began operations with a processing capacity of 1 tonne per hour and expanded to 30 tonnes per day by 2019, per FABRAR's published operational data and reporting by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which supported the facility through its Food and Enterprise Development program. FABRAR purchases paddy rice from approximately 2,000 smallholder farmers in central and northern Liberia, providing a structured domestic market for growers who previously had no reliable offtake buyer. The company markets processed rice under the Pride of Liberia brand.

Sources

  1. Cma
  2. Facebook
  3. Newspublictrust
Last updated: 5/27/2026 by xecon desk corrections@xecon.dev