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. > > Sent from my tiPhone > > 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* >> >> ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To >> unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >> Gambia-L Web interface at: >> http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html >> >> To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >> http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact >> the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >> [log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ >> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L > Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact > the List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤