Paramount Chief of Bendu Bongor Chiefdom in Bo District, Musa Aruna Sandi, has told journalists that IFAD has changed the way they farm by making farming easier and productive.

The chief was speaking during a monitoring exercise conducted by a team of IFAD  and the Ministry of Agriculture to project sites in the provinces. During the of the IFAD Executive Board to Sierra Leone in November, 2022.

Prior to the intervention of the Invalid Swamp (IVS) project, the chief said they were not particular about swamp farming, as all what they were doing was upland cultivation.

But with the intervention of IFAD and the Ministry of Agriculture, their narrative has changed, having now the required skills to do swamp farming in a very large scale.

He added that the site was an abandoned swamp that the people of Bongor were not using because they did not have the proper farm material.