On 14 September 2026 (Beijing time), a delegation of about 30 participants from the Liberian Agricultural Development Planning Training Programme visited Mainland Group's Hunan headquarters. Hosted by the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the visit focused on agricultural industry development, overseas project construction, and cooperation in agriculture for research and exchange. Relevant business leaders from Mainland Group accompanied them on the tour and participated in the discussion.

The delegation first visited the Group’s corporate exhibition hall to learn about Mainland Group’s development history and global industrial layout. Staff introduced the Group’s whole-industry-chain operation practices for bulk agricultural products in multiple African countries, covering natural rubber, sunflower seed oil, coffee and cassava starch, and briefed on project progress in Liberia: the Group has completed local rice breeding research and a survey of the rubber industry in Grand Bassa County; the cassava starch deep-processing project is under construction and raw material base development is being advanced simultaneously. Next, the Group plans to set up an agricultural planting special fund, implement the “company + farmer” model, provide small farmers with seedlings, technology, capital and guaranteed purchase orders, and plan to build a rubber processing factory and a rice processing factory, introducing high-yield Chinese rice varieties for localised trial planting to fill gaps in local agricultural product processing.

During the discussion, the delegation raised questions based on the current state of agricultural development in Liberia, covering cassava industrialisation, rubber upgrading, promotion of fine rice varieties and farmer support mechanisms, and gained a detailed understanding of overseas project operation and practical farmer cooperation experience. The delegation said that Liberia has abundant agricultural resources but a weak processing industry foundation. They hoped to draw on Mainland’s industrial experience, welcomed the continued implementation of physical projects, and looked forward to supporting local industrial development and increasing farmers’ incomes.

This visit helped Liberia’s agriculture authorities gain a direct understanding of Mainland Group’s project practices and laid a solid foundation for practical cooperation between the two sides in agricultural investment, agricultural product processing and industrial chain co-construction.