Despite The Gambia government’s assurance months ago that it has placed an order for the importation of 150 tractors for the farming community, the hardwares have yet to arrive at the Banjul Port a little more than 10 days before seasonal rains set in. JollofNews has gathered from a senior[Read More…]
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Mechanization Is The Way Forward – President Barrow
Gambia’s Adama Barrow has vowed to make the mechanization of the agricultural sector a reality as he received the prototype of a groundnut separating machine donated to him by a philanthropist. “This is part of mechanisation. Agricultural mechanisation will increase exponentially work-speed. The harder part of the labour can now[Read More…]
Barrow Promises Peanut Farmers Of Enhanced Financial Health In Few Days
Groundnut farmers can now look forward to the enhancement of their ailing economic health in little more than a week from today as President Barrow announced 1 December 2021, as date when they’ll begin to receive cash for their peanuts. Though the announcement was unilateral and unofficially made at events[Read More…]