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Bakau women trained on drip irrigation, food securityWednesday, February 20, 2008
Healing Hands International in USA, in collaboration with Church of Christ The Gambia, last Thursday organised a three-day training of trainers workshop on food security and drip irrigation technology for 24 members of the Bakau women’s Garden at Mile 7. The training held from the 14th to 16th February, 2008, was aimed at enhancing the production capacity of the local farmers by introducing a drip Irrigation technology. Speaking at the occasion, Isaac K Daye a representative of Healing Hands International said his organisation is a humanitarian organisation that helps local farmers by teaching them new farming methods to boost their production capacity. “This will help local farmers to adopt farming techniques for maximum out put and food security.We are trying to explore the opportunity to expand the programme across the country”, he said. He revealed they have organised similar training in Mali, Burkina Faso and Cameroon and called on participants to utilised the knowledge acquired during the training and disseminate it to others. Binta Jammeh, a participant, in her vote of thanks applauded the organisers derscribing the training as important . She then expressed optimism that the knowledge would be effectively used as expected. Author: by Buya Jammeh
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