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…]
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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…]
Barrow Drums Up Support For Food Banking Despite Absence Of Silos
As the unpredictability and precariousness of the Gambia’s food situation remain, President Adama Barrow is appealing to farmers to support the creation of national food banks by selling their cereals to the government. Despite government’s brutal fertilizer policy this outgoing farming season, bumper harvests have been reported in several parts[Read More…]