Looks like blackmail to me. tells a lot about us as a nation. Malanding Farmers to Benefit From Gov't Subsidies Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Daily Observer (Banjul) January 29, 2003 Posted to the web January 29, 2003 Pa Malick Faye Banjul Yankuba Touray, secretary of state for Tourism and Culture, has said that Government will give a five-year tax concession to farmers who engage in large-scale commercial farming in the country. SoS Touray made this revelation at a meeting in Keneba in Kantora Constituency, URD, during the ongoing Meet-The-Peoples Tour. He said this special package is part of Government's efforts to encourage more people to be involved in large scale agricultural production to make the country food self-sufficient. "That being the case, we are calling on wealthy citizens to join the Government in this drive as they would get all the support needed," Touray said. He urged farmers to engage themselves in vegetable production as his Department of State will be collaborating with the Agriculture Department to make good market outlets in the hotels because all the vegetables they consume comes from neighbouring Senegal. "Diversification is what we need in agriculture. So we should not be engaged in groundnut farming alone. The APRC will be helping farmers with farming implements soon and the farmers should take advantage of this," he said. Speaking at a similar meeting in Madina Samako, in Tumana Constituency, Touray said Government will first concentrate on areas that voted for them massively in the elections. "Any area that wants development should follow this pattern, if not, anything that happens should be blamed on the people themselves. I am therefore calling on party militants and chairmen to open the doors to others to join the party,' he said. President, Yahya Jammeh, re-echoed Mr Touray's remarks and expressed the hope that the people of URD will change for the better. He said what his Government has done for the area in the past years in terms of development was great and that they should not allow anyone to mislead them. He called on the menfolk to do away with Bantabas and engage themselves in meaningful agricultural activities and not to leave everything in the hands of the women. "This year, we are not allowing anyone to play football in the rainy season and anyone who disobeys this order risks being imprisoned and all chiefs and alkalolu should heed this advice for they too will face punishment if this is disobeyed," Jammeh said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Make allAfrica.com your home page ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Top | Site Français | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Copyright © 2002 The Daily Observer. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). Click here to contact the copyright holder directly for corrections -- or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~