BANJUL Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Juju Gassama, 43, is a rice-farmer in western Gambia’s Jambur village, a small farming community 30km east of the capital Banjul. She is a member of the village’s Yiriwa Kafo, rice cooperative, which is made up of mainly women farmers. “I started growing Nerica seven years ago. We were some of the first farmers in the country to use it. When Nerica seeds first came into the country, the National Agriculture Research Institute gave some seeds to women...