PIWAMP discuses state of implemented projects

Stakeholders in the Project Management Unit of the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP) on March 16-17, 2012 met to discuss and agree on causes of action for project activities implemented.

PIWAMP, Project Units Coordinators, the Ministry of Agriculture, Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN-Gambia), Upland and Lowland Field Coordinators, and project beneficiaries gathered for the Annual Consultative Meeting at the Rural Agricultural Farmers Training Centre at Jenoi, Lower River Region of The Gambia. 

The consultative forum affords all stakeholders the opportunity to discuss openly critical issues affecting project implementation and to come to terms on the way forward, explains Mr. Alagie Jatta, a representative of the Deputy Governor of the region, LRR. 

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Agriculture as the most Important Sector

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VOL:1 ISSN:30 Agriculture continues to be the most important sector in the country’s economic system and the Finance Minister even consented to this in his budget speech. The Minister disclosed that the sector performed reasonably well during the 2008/2009 cropping season with an increase in area and production for most crops, with the total cereal production is estimated at 284,700 tons comprising 223,700 tons of coarse grains and 61,000 tons of paddy rice.
According to him, groundnuts production is estimated to increase from 72,000 metric tons in 2007/2008 to 140,000 metric tons in 2009.