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TIMOR-LESTE: Security concerns stop coffee growers from harvesting

DILI Monday, April 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Military restrictions on civilians in Timor-Leste are putting the multi-million dollar coffee industry in jeopardy as authorities have ordered growers to stay away from their plantations, preventing them from preparing for the annual May coffee bean harvest. More than 10,000 tonnes of coffee is produced in Timor-Leste - 80 percent of total exports - bringing in an estimated US$20 million a year. It is the main source of income for the majority of the...

KMC mayor calls for massive investment in farming

The mayor of the Kanifing Municipal Council, Yankuba Colley, has called on Gambian entreprenurs to take up farming as a major investment. Mayor Yankuba Colley was speaking to reporters over the weekend at the 45-hectare Jiramba rice field. This is one of the biggest of President Yahya Jammeh’s farms in Kanilai. The KMC mayor had led a delegation of over 500 people from his municipality to the farm to harvest the rice. Aware of the fact that large scale farming requires huge investments,...

More people work on president’s farm

At least one hundred staffers from the Judiciary and the Department of State for Justice over the weekend harvested  a vast Munku rice field in Kanilai. Led to the President’s farm by Alhagie Omar Taal, deputy permanent secretary at the Department of State for Justice, the group were harvesting the third row of the Munku rice variety, which is harvestable seven times in a growing season. Speaking at the harvesting exercise, Taal said they were in Kanilai to answer to the appeal of the Gambian...

Kanilai Farm coordinator appeals for more support

Lieutnant Seedy Baldeh, coordinator of Kanilai Farms, has appealed for more hands to help accelerate the harvesting process at the president’s farms. The Kanilai Farms’ coordinator was speaking to the Daily Observer, over the weekend, at one of the largest farms of President Jammeh in the Fonis, his Jiramba rice field. Lieutnant Baldeh revealed that an eight-kilometer millet farm of the president remained unharvested, while another 45 hectare rice field, which is also in Jiramba, and other...

CRR residents harvest president Jammeh’s farms

The people of Upper Saloum and Fulladou, on Sunday, November 2nd, embarked on a harvesting exercise on President Jammeh’s farms in Upper Saloum and Sare Madi in the Upper Fulladou West District, Central River Region (CRR).  The harvesting exercise, led by Alhagie Ganyie Touray, the governor of CRR and the National Assembly Members of the area, was carried out in different farms where different crops were cultivated. Speaking at the harvesting ground, Alhagie Ganyie Touray, commended the people...

Kanilai is calling

It is harvest time again, after months of hard work came a patriotic call to lend a hand; a call that came from a champion of the cause of self-reliance. That same call is once again being re-echoed from the same source. A tremendous performance it was, by the thousands of people who occasionally descended on Kanilai farms some several months back. The fruit of those industrious moments of hard work, inspired by the visionary guidance of an exemplary leader, with the help of the Almighty Allah,...

Bansang Immigration rice field harvested

Officers at the Bansang Immigration post last Sunday harvested their three plots of Nerica rice at Bansang in Upper Fulladu District, Central River Region south. The harvesting was jointly conducted by sister security services and the community of Bansang.  Speaking during the harvesting process, Spt Ebrima Mboob, the commissioner of Immigration noted that his officers have shown great interest in restoring food self sufficiency.  According to him, the only solution to the global food crises...

Oyster season ends

“The culture of Oyster harvesting has been with us generations. Just like fishing activities, its harvesting procedure includes:  harvesting from mangroves, processing as well as marketing, and it is done by women in The Gambia”, said Fatou Mboob Janha, coordinator of the Try Oyster Women Association, at Camalo along the Banjul/Serekunda highway, as the oyster season ends on Tuesday. Mrs Mboob, a long time customer, said that, she one day visited the group, at their processing site and was...

Chips are down for South Africa’s sharks

A new study shows that inadequate regulatory controls and increased targeting of sharks in South African waters could make certain species vulnerable to over-harvesting. The report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network — a joint programme of WWF and IUCN-The World Conservation Union — found that South African exports of shark products to Australia totalled 37 tonnes; the combined Australian import figure was almost 148 tonnes, a discrepancy of more than 100 tonnes. “Too little is...