It is obvious that any Idiot can champion something like this, and still be able to show some sort of quick fix to a huge problem that will always lingers.

From: "Karamba" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 5, 2014 12:00:45 PM
Subject: Re: [G_L] Who owns V-2016 farms?

Dr Jaiteh,

The farms are wholly owned by Yahya Jammeh who applies the Gambian state and all its associated institutions and resources as a private investment vehicle. The formula is simple: appropriate prime land from communities, direct state resources and personnel to the farms, use government bureaucracy to coerce labor from hapless people who are either idle or are too fearful to resist joining labor gangs. Cultivate the rice and sell it to people willing to buy it. It is that plain.

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On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Can someone help tell us who owns the so-called V-2016 farms? Are the owned by the The Gambian state, Kanilai Family Farms, Yahya Jammeh or some private investors? Remember this is 50 billion dalasi business!

Malanding Jaiteh

Courtesy: http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/presidential-harvest-on-v-2016-farms-attracts-foreign-journalists

Presidential harvest on V-2016 farms attracts foreign journalists
Africa » Gambia

Friday, December 05, 2014
The second leg of harvest exercises at vast rice fields put under cultivation for the attainment of the country’s Vision 2016 Agenda has attracted the presence of foreign journalists who want to see firsthand how a country’s leader is leading by example in the pursuit of his anti-hunger programme.

The journalists drawn from renowned media outlets such as: Tehran based Press TV (Iran); United Kingdom based New Africa Magazine; National TV De’ Guinea Bissau; Senegal based RDV; Journal Press De Bissau and eBiz, have been covering the farming activities of President Sheikh Prof Alh Dr Yahya Jammeh since he began the tour on Monday.

The Vision 2016 Agenda, launched in 2013 during a presidential annual ‘Dialogue with the People’s Tour’ has since attracted a lot of support; the most recent from the representative of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO; the Nigerian ambassador to The Gambia; and the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze who visited the country a few months ago.

The agenda has also attracted foreign investors who have shown interest in large-scale agricultural production.

The overall idea of the vision is to end decades-long importation of food, especially rice into The Gambia and ultimately make the nation food self-sufficient. It is also anticipated that the successful implementation and attainment of the country’s food self-sufficiency agenda, would cut significantly the colossal sums of money The Gambia as a country spends on rice imports.
Author: Musa Ndow

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