The Department of Agriculture (DOA) was created as an Executive department under the American Samoa Government (ASG) in accordance with the ASCA§4.0302(5)(b) as early as in 1962.
VISION
Food Security and Sustainability for the American Samoa Territory
MISSION
To Promote, Educate and Assist Local Farmers This emphasizes the method DOA approaches with implementations to expand its assistance to not only serve local farmers but the community as a whole to become aware, educated and trained for knowledge and production, most importantly to recollect and recall our own way of life. The DOA developed its first motto resonating with each and everyone of Samoan Ancestry within the American Samoa Territory.
Agriculture department represents and resounds its contemporary slogan:
“Farming is not just a job it is our way of Life”
“O le fai Faatoaga e le o na’o se galuega, ae o tu ma ala ia o lo tatou Soifuaga”