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| Banky Njie Nema Business Dev Officer |
“We
have the land – about 60 percent of our land is underutilized, we have the
people resources. Now, with the number of different projects – we also have the
investments, whether its Nema’a asset financing scheme, or FASDEP’s version, or
Reliance standalone “Farming as a Business”.
“So
the opportunities are here to transform our activities to increase production,
not only to feed ourselves, but also feed the world. We should have a vision to
emulate our president and heed to his clarion call – ‘eat what we grow and grow
what we eat’. We should then be able to reduce our import bills and use the
hard currency to import that which we cannot produce – like cars…yet!! We
cannot talk about our dignity if we don’t have the ability to feed ourselves.
“Let
us all believe and have a sense of pride in what we produce and get out of our
mindsets that anything imported, especially from the West, is better,” said
Banky Njie Business Development Officer for the International Fund for
Agricultural Development, IFAD financed project in The Gambia the National
Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project (Nema)
Nema Business Development Officer was
delivering a statement on the closing of the 4 day Entrepreneurship training to
smallholder producers & actors in the rice & vegetable value chains at
Jenoi, Thursday 13th March 2014.
