Community embraces backyard gardening due to Nafa Program thepoint.gm - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thepoint.gm Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gambia launches US $30m rice value-chain development project
February 8, 2021
92 Views
The government of The Gambia through the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday launched an ambitious regional rice value-chain development project worth about 30 million dollars at a local hotel. Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), BADEA and the government of The Gambia is funding the project, which seeks to address the value chain in rice and reduce rice importation.
At the launch, Amie Fabureh, minister of Agriculture said that IsDB and BADEA are providing the necessary support to help unleash the potential inherent in The Gambian agriculture sector, which she said, to a larger extent, has been acknowledged as a key growth pole for the nation’s economic and social development.