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Gambia News : Gambian women commended over TeleFoods projects
The country representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) in The Gambia, Dr. Babagana Ahmadu, has commended Gambian women
for their disposition to the rural TeleFoods projects.
Ahmadu, who was addressing Gambians women at the end of the
two-week TeleFoods projects Thursday, said the attitude of the women
was a remarkable achievement for the projects.
He promised to
continue working closely with the women and to support them in terms of
capacity building to strengthen their projects and programmes.
According
to him, the project is a short-term programme of 12 months' duration
during which the women are closely monitored, and farmers' capacities
strengthened in the interest of sustaining the projects.
He said
at the end of the 12 months, FAO will hand over the projects to the
farmers, who will then continue the programme without any financial
support from the organisation.
Ahmadu disclosed further that the
FAO had, within the last two weeks, launched 10 projects across the
country, amounting to over D2 million, aimed at empowering farmers'
associations.
The FAO country boss said they organisation continue to offer technical support even after the 12 months.
The
FAO-sponsored Telefood projects which were launched in six villages in
the last two weeks, is aimed at addressing the problems faced by small
groups, women a ssociations, women farmer associations and the youths
who are having problems in terms of accessing basic farming inputs like
fertilizers, seeds and some basic tools.
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