Call it cojones! Please excuse my Spanish.

Malanding


On 12/5/2014 12:00 PM, Karamba wrote:
> Dr Jaiteh,
>                  The farms are wholly owned by Yahya Jammeh who
> applies the Gambian state and all its associated institutions and
> resources as a private investment vehicle. The formula is simple:
> appropriate prime land from communities, direct state resources and
> personnel to the farms, use government bureaucracy to coerce labor
> from hapless people who are either idle or are too fearful to resist
> joining labor gangs. Cultivate the rice and sell it to people willing
> to buy it. It is that plain.
>
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>
> On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>> Can someone help tell us who owns the so-called V-2016 farms? Are the
>> owned by the The Gambian state, Kanilai Family Farms, Yahya Jammeh or
>> some private investors? Remember this is 50 billion dalasi business!
>>
>> Malanding Jaiteh
>>
>> Courtesy:
>> http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/presidential-harvest-on-v-2016-farms-attracts-foreign-journalists
>>
>>
>>     Presidential harvest on V-2016 farms attracts foreign journalists
>>
>> Africa <http://observer.gm/africa/news>»Gambia
>> <http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/news>
>>
>> Friday, December 05, 2014
>>
>> *The second leg of harvest exercises at vast rice fields put under
>> cultivation for the attainment of the country’s Vision 2016 Agenda
>> has attracted the presence of foreign journalists who want to see
>> firsthand how a country’s leader is leading by example in the pursuit
>> of his anti-hunger programme.*
>>
>>
>> The journalists drawn from renowned media outlets such as: Tehran
>> based Press TV (Iran); United Kingdom based New Africa Magazine;
>> National TV De’ Guinea Bissau; Senegal based RDV; Journal Press De
>> Bissau and eBiz, have been covering the farming activities of
>> President Sheikh Prof Alh Dr Yahya Jammeh since he began the tour on
>> Monday.
>>
>>
>> The Vision 2016 Agenda, launched in 2013 during a presidential annual
>> ‘Dialogue with the People’s Tour’ has since attracted a lot of
>> support; the most recent from the representative of the Food and
>> Agricultural Organisation (FAO; the Nigerian ambassador to The
>> Gambia; and the president of the International Fund for Agricultural
>> Development (IFAD), Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze who visited the country a
>> few months ago.
>>
>>
>> The agenda has also attracted foreign investors who have shown
>> interest in large-scale agricultural production.
>>
>>
>> The overall idea of the vision is to end decades-long importation of
>> food, especially rice into The Gambia and ultimately make the nation
>> food self-sufficient. It is also anticipated that the successful
>> implementation and attainment of the country’s food self-sufficiency
>> agenda, would cut significantly the colossal sums of money The Gambia
>> as a country spends on rice imports.
>>
>> Author:*Musa Ndow*
>>
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