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Towards food self-sufficiency operational strategies: relevant issues

One of the steps that need to be taken to equip the national farm advisory technicians for the increased demand of their job for generating productivity growth, is a programme that I have outlined as “changing the change agent.”   This is based on the simple assumption that “one cannot teach what one does not know.” Besides competence in subject matter and manipulative skills, a by-product of this approach is actually a new work ethic essential to the farmer’s as well as the nation’s awakened...

NEA Trains Banjul Refrigeration Technicians

A five-day intensive training course for refrigeration technicians in Banjul on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) is underway at Joko in Banjul. The training, which has drawn over 30 participants from different refrigeration workshops in the capital, was organised by the National Environment Agency (NEA). In his opening remarks, the Programme Officer for Ozone Depleting Substances, Dawda Badjie, said there is a need for a holistic local effort in saving the ozone layer from depletion. He said...

NART established

The National Ozone Office under the National Environment Agency (NEA) recently organised a two-day technical meeting for refrigeration technicians at the Trans-Gambia lodge in Pakalinding, Lower River Region. Over 40 participants drawn from regional associations of refrigeration technicians participated in the dialogue over establishing a national association that would represent the country in international fora and trainings. In his opening remarks, Lamin Darboe, the deputy governor of Lower...

GNRTA launched

A newly formed association, called the Gambia National Refrigeration Technicians Association (GNRTA), was recently established in the country, with the objective of facing out global pandemic substances such as the Ocean depletion substances (ODS). Initiated by a group of technicians during a meeting organised by the National Environmental Agency (NEA) in Mansakoiko, the newly established association is tasked with the responsibility to gather and train all refrigeration technicians in The...

65 Gambian students leave for Venezuela

President Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh yesterday bade farewell to the first batch of 65 Gambian students who are to pursue their education in Venezuela under the Venezuela International Students Scholarship Programme, at a ceremony held at the State House, Banjul. Among these students are crops of future medical doctors, engineers, geologist, industrial technologist, agricultural technicians, telecommunications technicians, computer scientist among others. Led to State House by members of the...