Sunday 28 April 2013
The Coordinator of the National Coordination Unit of the nationwide mass vaccination Campaign against Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) based at the Animal Health and Production Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr Kebba Daffeh said he would like to inform and reassure cattle farmers countrywide and particularly those in Upper RiverRegion that the Vaccination campaign is in Progress throughout the country and that the entire cattle population in The Gambia above 6 months of age are targeted for vaccination.
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Sunday 20 January 2013
The African Development Bank (ADB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government of the Gambia funded the training programme, reports Daily Observer.
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Friday 05 October 2012
Eighteen cases of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) have been identified in Central River Region, Niamina Dankunku in Gambia.
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Tuesday 14 June 2011
All the time the issue of this fantasised Vision 2020 comes up there has been too much lenience to the subject. Now we have to go purely technical to settle for the truth about failure of Gambia’s day dreaming hopeless, deceptive and crippling imagination; a vision out of focus.
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Saturday 20 February 2010
A major component in The Gambia's vision to become an export-oriented agricultural country by 2020 is the development of a robust agri-processing industry. Potential investors will benefit from the broad incentives in the agriculture sector
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Sunday 17 January 2010
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Alhagie Ganyie Touray, the governor of the region, commended PROGEBE for its laudable efforts in poverty reduction and strengthening food security
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Wednesday 30 December 2009
Farmers have been busy at the fringes of happenings, complaining about the price on offer this year. They are appealing to government for an adjustment, failure of which they threatened to sell their
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Tuesday 17 November 2009
Samsideen Jammeh, a poultry farmer at Makumbaya village in the Kombo North District of the country's Western region, has called on Gambians to venture into poultry farming.
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Tuesday 15 September 2009
The 40 foot container of imported meat that allegedly arrived from the US and being sold at the KMC is said to have sold out completely by Saturday 12 September, barely three days after the announcement.
This meat that
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Wednesday 10 June 2009
Through spontaneous cross-breeding in the field between African and Asian rice cultivars, rice farmers in West Africa have developed a new type of rice according to Wageningen University in the Netherlands.Farmers in West Africa have two sorts of rice at their disposal: Asian rice with high potential yields and African rice, which is better adapted to local conditions. Rice is self-pollinating, which means there is no cross-pollination as
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