The Agribusiness Services and Producers Association (ASPA) in partnership with the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) over the weekend completed their annual three-day buyer-seller workshop for stakeholders in groundnut, cashew and cereal value chains.<\/p>\n
The event ended in Jenoi, LRR. It seeks to sensitise and build capacity of stakeholders in the handling and marketing of groundnut, cashew and cereal products. The event gave special attention to creating market opportunities by bringing producers and buyers together to discuss challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n
The representative of YEP, Kebba Seck, said their work is to help engage young people into something meaningful, thereby discouraging \u2018back way\u2019.
\n\u201cThe reason for us sponsoring this program is because we know majority depend on farming and they contribute to the improvement of our economy,\u201d he stated.
\nBecause 70 percent of Gambians are farmers, Seck reiterated the importance of bringing together stakeholders to discuss issues affecting the farming sector and to look at means of improvingit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe realised that farmers do harvest and directly sell their crops. That\u2019s why we brought someone who will discuss about processing, so that you will be able to sell your crops with good prices,\u201d he told them.<\/p>\n
Ousman Sanyang, a rep of the agriculture ministry, hopes that the event will help stakeholders and government identify the unreported challenges of farmers so that they can separate the wheat from the chaff.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we know that there are a lot of groundnuts and not so many buyers. Now, we know that what we have to do is to discuss a way forward in solving it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He called the government \u201cwise\u201d for engaging farmers to cultivate more rice compared to before when the country used to import rice in large number.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know if we want to help the farmers, we must hear their voices and engage them in dialogue for better farming system,\u201d Mr Sanyang added.<\/p>\n
Chief of Jarra West, Alhagie Yaya Jarjusey, said the event was important because it involved stakeholders who play crucial roles in the productive sectors of our economy.<\/p>\n
Pa Gumbo Saine, a representative of the education minister, expressed similar remarks.
\nThe overall objective of the meeting was to support the groundnut, cashew and cereal sectors, and to support government\u2019s efforts to increase production and marketing of these crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Agribusiness Services and Producers Association (ASPA) in partnership with the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) over the weekend completed their annual three-day buyer-seller workshop for stakeholders in groundnut, cashew and cereal value chains. The event ended in Jenoi, LRR. It seeks to sensitise and build capacity of stakeholders in the handling and marketing of groundnut, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1645,1065,173],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-agribusiness-services-and-producers-association-aspa","tag-gambia-news-everyday","tag-youth-empowerment-project-yep"],"yoast_head":"\n