Laye
This is sad news for Diaspora Gambians. Because even in good times,
they pick up the pieces let alone in a bad situation like this.
May God help the struggling families.
Suntou

On 3/7/12, Laye Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-03-07-gambia-says-70-pct-of-food-harvest-failed-seeks-aid/
>
> Gambia says 70 pct of food harvest failed, seeks aid
> Reuters | 2012-03-07 16:30:00
>
> BANJUL - Gambia has appealed for food aid after it said that 70 percent of
> its crops failed during the last growing season, extending the reach of a
> food crisis already hitting millions of people across Africa's Sahel strip.
>  Gambia's agriculture ministry said the impact of poor rains last year had
> been exacerbated by high world food prices, crippling household incomes in
> the West African state, which has ridden out previous food crises.
>
> Aid agencies have warned that some nine million people across Mauritania,
> Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad are facing another food crisis this year
> on the back of poor harvests, high prices, the fall in remittances and
> conflict.
>
> "The post-harvest assessment of the 2011 farming season, which was
> characterized by below normal and poorly distributed rainfall, indicated a
> reduction in total crop production of more than 70 percent," Gambia's
> agriculture ministry said in a statement issued late on Tuesday.
>
> The poor harvests of rice, groundnuts, millets, maize and sorghum had left
> villages with just two months of food supplies, down from the usual four to
> six, at the end of the 2011 harvest, it added.
>
> The statement said the government could not match the needs to tackle the
> current food crisis and prepare farmers for the 2012 growing season and
> appealed for $23 million in seeds, fertilisers and food aid.
>
> Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup, has had a
> troubled relationship with donors, largely due to his country's human
> rights record.
>
> The statement did not give a figure for the number of people needing food
> aid but officials in the agriculture ministry said just over 1 million
> people were in need.
>
> Some 60 percent of the country of 1.7 million people, living in a nation
> completely surrounded by Senegal, are farmers.
>
> Crops are usually planted in July and harvested in October.
>
>
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