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| Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Amie Fabureh |
By
Mamadou Edrisa Njie
The Minister of Agriculture (MoA), Hon. Amie Faburay on
Thursday, 20th June, 2019 has presided over the launching of the
National Seed Plan at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi.
The launching was organized by the National Seed
Secretariat (NSS) under the Ministry of Agriculture with support from the Food
and Agricultural Organisation (F.A.O) Banjul office- www.fao.org/world/gambia
through the European Union (EU) funded project dubbed “Agriculture for Economic
Growth and Food Security/Nutrition to mitigate Migration flows.
The National Seed Plan was developed to promote production,
availability and utilization of quality seed that would improve agricultural
productivity and contribute to economic growth of The Gambia.
“Quality seeds constitute a prime prerequisite in
agriculture and the basis of agricultural productivity, which is part of a
critical importance to the government of The Gambia, since the national economy
and food and nutrition security depends on a successful local agriculture,”
says the Agricultural Minister.
The Ministry of Agriculture, she added, has long pursued
the establishment of seed industry structures, policy and programs that would
support the Gambia’s agriculture.
