20 June 2008
Technical training in agriculture has become readily available to Gambian farmers throughout the country, a major step to ensure sustainable food security in the West African country.
The Smiling Coast of Africa has achieved its five-year project in partnership with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College of Toronto in Canada to set up a range of short courses so as to provide useful advice to farmers and therefore secure a stable national agricultural economy.
In a country where 75 per cent of the population work in agriculture, such a project was truly at the core of the entire nation's development, putting an end to food scarcity and dependence on food imports.
Ebrima Cham, head of the School of Agriculture of Gambia, which delivers the courses, told the Daily Observer: "This new curricula seek to provide skilled agricultural extension service providers that are capable of addressing the food security needs of the farming community."
The Sustainable Food Security project was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.
