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Current Feed ContentAELP ready for agricultural productivityAfrica Emergency Locust Project (AELP), in their strive to mitigate the socio-economic and environmental impact of locust infestation on agricultural and live stock production, recently kicked off a distribution exercise of a brand of rice seeds, called NERICA (New Rice for Africa). In all, inhabitants of 230 villages benefited from the exercise. In an interview with the Daily Observer, Yasin Khan, the savvy AELP monitoring and evaluation officer, said that in the frame work of emergency...AELP supports 230 villagesIn their strive to mitigate losses caused by the 2004/05 locust invasion, the Africa Emergency Locust Project (AELP) The Gambia, has ventured to assist at least 230 villages with 15 tons of Nerica rice seeds in the build up to the 2008 farming season. Confirming this at the opening of a five-day ‘Quest Training’ in Jenoi, Lower River Region, Yassin Khan, monitoring and evaluation officer of the project, said the gesture due for distribution, adding that it was acquired following a request by... |
