The Project Steering Committee of Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project (AACCP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) wrapped up monitoring visit to project sites across the country recently.
Speaking to The Voice at the of the tour, Dr. Saikou E Sanyang, Deputy Permanent Secretary Ministry of Agriculture, and also team leaders stated that the tour was meant to assess the progress and impacts of the project interventions and hand over vegetable gardens, and livestock water drinking points.
In Kinteh Kunda Janneh Ya of Lower Badibou, where the project is sponsoring ten gardens, benefactors received power tillers, milling machines, 20 goats, and 20 cockerels.
He disclosed that four communities in NBR received watering points namely; Dobo and Pallen Amdalahi and are meant to boost animals’ health, Kunjo, Juffureh, Mandori, and KintehKunda Janneh Ya benefited vegetable gardens.
Dr. Sanyang calls on beneficiaries to be vigilant and create sustainability measures to enhance the proper upkeep of the support project to bring about accountability and ownership.
He urged that communities should ensure proper management by advocating for all-inclusive participation to avoid conflict, and to work towards carrying out preventive maintenance.
Dr. Sanyang commended FAO for complementing government efforts in boosting agricultural development to enhance vegetables and livestock producers.
“The drinking points for livestock has been a concern for farmers and now with the handing over the facility, it is expected it would greatly enhance animal production,” he noted.
For her part. Governor Fatou Jammeh Touray of NBR described the handing over of four vegetable gardens and four watering points as crucial in the attainment of year-round production and reducing conflicts between livestock breeders and crop farmers.
She assured her office of continued support and called on communities to take ownership.