Future for Liberia's rubber farmers shaky amid economic woes

almost 4 years in Washington Times

GBARNGA, Liberia (AP) - Christopher Reeves has farmed rubber for more than three decades in Liberia, selling his crop to the international tire-maker Firestone, which also operates the world’s largest rubber plantation here. Now Reeves, 61, and thousands of others working in Liberia's once-thriving rubber industry have fallen victim to ...

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