Tag: Agriculture

US$80m ROOTS Project Convulses From Funding Woes

Barely weeks to the last general election, President Adama Barrow launched the Resilience of Organizations for Transformative Smallholder Agricultural Project (ROOTS) amid pomp and ceremony but the project is now suffering inertia few months into its launch as much-needed funds were not forthcoming. The project is currently grappling with funding[Read More…]

Gambia Admits Incapacity To Police Waters

The Gambia government’s inability to adequately police the territorial waters has been responsible for significant loss of livelihoods and drop in household nutritional statuses but the government said it is making serious efforts to police the waters despite its admission of incapacity. The Minister of Fisheries, Hon. Musa Drammeh, was[Read More…]

Bachilly Says Fertilizer At D2000 Insane

One of President Adama Barrow’s senior coalition partners has called on the Gambian leader to show compassion and love to Gambian farmers by re-establishing the 2021 fertilizer price of D750, saying government’s current price tag of D2000 for a bag of fertilizer is insane. Musa Ousainou Yalli Bachilly made similar[Read More…]

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