Gambia capable of producing million tonnes of rice

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.”

Pres. Jammeh: We must feed ourselves

RICE as a staple food in Gambia is mainly imported from Asia (Photo credit: Facts and Details)

“We must feed ourselves,” President Yaya Jammeh said of his country, The Gambia, which is endowed with land and fresh water.

Jammeh has said his government plans to initiate an all-year round rice production scheme that could further efforts to attaining food self-sufficiency.

“The all-year-round rice production would not only ensure that there is enough food for local consumption, but surplus for export to other countries,” Mr Jammeh said in the Central River Region according to state media reports.

Gambian politician, Waa Juwara, is ‘keeping it cool’

Waa Juwara was arrested on several occasions and tortured (Photo Slide: Kibaaro News)

The leader of the opposition National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM), Mr Waa Juwara is no longer sure if he is an opposition. 

He has worked with the Jammeh-led Government as an opposition since 2009 when he became governor of Lower River Region and later Minister of Local Government and Lands.

On the eve of President Jammeh’s 19^th Anniversary of the July 22 Coup, Juwara told The Voice: “We will be able to keep it cool and be able to contribute in one way or the other to make sure that Gambia is still intact.”

“That is why we talk about development, you cannot talk about development in actual fact when there is no peace and stability which we have enjoyed for a good measure,” he said on Sunday, July 21. 

African leaders have now realised they must work together

In Addis, Jammeh told the AU Assembly that without peace and stability, anything they desire will become an elusive dream (Photo credit: SEYLLOU/AFP).

The Gambia: Government says over D600 million fish market will ease poverty, create jobs

The Bakoteh Fish Market at "near completion" in July 2012 (Photo credit: Daily Observer)

Yahya Jammeh mourns Gambia’s lack of fishing fleet, poor management

"Another principal constraint to development of the industrial fishery sub-sector is the lack of significant numbers of national industrial fishing trawlers,” says Mr Jammeh - (photo credit: Wikipedia)

THE GAMBIA: TWIST IN WORKWEEK CUT

Unionist says it must halt 

President Jammeh is bestowed with a wide-range of executive powers - from hiring and firing to changing the nomenclature of institutions or workdays and hours/Photo: Wikipedia

Gambia: Workweek cut for rest, worship and farming

A local fears the move might encourage laziness: party goers attend an open-air music concert in Latrikunda German/photo/Modou S. Joof/May 2012

Gambia Executions: Brutal or Lawful Killing?

Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh presided over the the killing by firing squad of nine death row inmates in Gambia in August 2012/PHOTO/AFP

Regime change without attitudinal change in The Gambia is meaningless!

Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh is often criticised by rights agencies as authoritative/here he speaks to journalists in Nov 2011/PHOTO/AFP

Freedom at Mile 2 for Sale to Highest Bidder

Jasseh (L) and Janneh (R) said they were expelled from Gambia as Americans, not pardoned as announced

An eye for an eye justice to address murder: Imam Drammeh

Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh ordered for the execution of 9 death row inmates in August 2012/PHOTO/AFP2011

 The Imam of the colonel Moumar Gaddafi Mosque in Kotu, Momodou Lamin Drammeh is of the view that “an eye for an eye justice” (kill and be killed) is the only remedy to an increasing murder rate in The Gambia.

The Imam, who was speaking to this reporter at his residence at Kotu on October 17, claimed that the August 2012 execution of death row inmates by the government is not only in line with the nation's constitution but in line with Islamic law (Shari’ah) as well.

President Jammeh’s EID Address to the Nation

President Jammeh pledged to have all death row inmates executed by mid-September. Photo | BBC |

President Jammeh Declares A ‘No Compromise’ with Criminals…

Urges Youths to Desist from Perilous Journeys

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) The President of the Republic of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has stressed that he would never compromise with criminals and detractors, whose main intention is to stall our progress as a country, in fostering peace and stability in The Gambia.
The Gambian Leader was addressing citizens in his traditional annual New Year Message, on the eve of January, 1, 2010.
He added that there has been a sharp increase in heinous crimes including murder, rape, robberies and other perpetrated within our borders. “The Gambia is a country that champions and practices the rule of law. We as a nation denounce violence in all it forms. My Government will always maintained zero tolerance for people bent on wreaking havoc, instability and violence. We will apply the laws of this land to the letter,” he told Gambians.