By Bakary Touray Jnr.
Women horticultural gardeners who spoke to this medium, have called on the relevant stakeholders to intervene and provide them with viable seeds and fence for their garden. They made the exhortation yesterday, as they prepare to graduate from 2019 farming season to 2019-2020 horticultural season.
Ms. Kaddy Sonko told this reporter that currently, they are clearing their garden plots and proceed with production, adding these “requirements” help them to have viable seeds and proper fencing to protect their garden products against animal encroachment.
Mariama Jaiteh indicated that lack of viable seeds, and frequent animal encroachment into their gardens shatter their production aspirations; and she called for stakeholders’ intervention, so as to provide remedies to their predicaments.
Ms. Fatoumatta Saidy told Mansa Banko Online,”Stakeholders should also assist us with standard market where we can sell our produces”. She believed this would also protect their produce from decay and being rotten due to long delays in selling them.
“We are calling on the authorities to help us with proper storage facilities where we can store our vegetables, prior to taking them to the weekly markets (Lumos),” Ms. Nyaling Manneh echoed.
Ms. Jankeh Touray disclosed:”Horticultural production contributes towards the attainment of food self-sufficiency. It also assists us {to} fend for our families in terms of feeding, and most especially, paying school fees for our children.”
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