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RICE as a staple food in Gambia is mainly imported from Asia (Photo credit: Facts and Details) |
The
Gambia has the potential to produce more than two million tonnes of rice
yearly, it’s President and leading farmer, Yahya Jammeh has said.
Two weeks ago,
Jammeh announced his government’s plan to initiate an all-year rice production
scheme that could further efforts to attaining food self-sufficiency. We must feed ourselves, he said of The Gambia, which is endowed with land and fresh
water.
Jammeh had since last year vowed to ban the importation of rice, a staple, into the West African
country by 2016. He is touring the country on his annual ‘meet-the-people-tour’
with an idea of a “Vision 2016 Rice Self-sufficiency Agenda.”
