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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While members of the community are enjoying a lot of financial benefits from the US federal government due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the local farmers have appealed to all families of the community, especially to the unemployed youth, to return to the land and...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoan Ministry of Agriculture wants to free up government-owned land for commercial farming in a push to increase exports.
Newsline Samoa reported farmers are being restricted by a lack of land.
The ministry's chief executive, Tilafono David Hunter, said government land could be...

![One of the many taro plantations in American Samoa. Local farmers are appealing to the community to return to the land and its resources. “My hat goes off to the Asian farmers…” but our land is our gift from God, they said. For the idle youth — it’s a way to earn a living, share ideas with each other over farming, and be part of the fellowship of ‘farming’. [photo by AF] TARO PLANTATION](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/taro_plantationweb.jpg?itok=V2ATV2F5)
![Processing bananas for export in Samoa. [SN file photo] Processing bananas for export in Samoa](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_banana_exportsweb_0.jpg?itok=ZtjoSF4p)