 
Contact Address:
Radville
Farms Gambia Co. Ltd.
Banjul
area head office
Nemakunku Village
PO Box 2276 Serrekunda
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 439 4232 (Old Yundum)
4495717
(Bakau shop/office)
447
2388 (Banjul Airport)
Fax: 572
0254
Email:
wealmoor@wealmoor.co.uk
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Information:
Radville Farms Limited was founded in 1985 as a private limited
company with large agricultural plantations at Nema Kunku
& Toubakuta.
It has other offices and stations at Brikama, and Yundum.
The company is the largest exporter of crops in the Gambia,
it accounts for 75% of exports & cultivates 300 hectares
of vegetables & fruits.
The company exports 1,500 tonnes of vegetables and around
700 tonnes of mangoes yearly. Other crops include okra, French
beans, citrus fruits and butternut
squash. Almost 50 percent of the 300 hectares cultivated are
devoted to organic farming, which is increasingly more attractive
to foreign buyers.
The firm is a subsidiary of U.K. based Wealmoor, to which
it exports its entire harvest. It grows most of its own crops,
though occasionally sub-contracts its requirements out locally.
Radville has its own agricultural processing plant and cold
storage facilities at Yundum Airport, where produce is checked,
wrapped and boxed before freighting to the UK. The agribusiness
is largely able to get around the challenges of freight space,
in part by chartering its own cargo aircraft through Wilmoor's
in-house freight airline, and through passenger flights.
Farming Methods:
Radville Farms allows its land to go fallow over the rainy
season and they sow Macuna perens as a green manure. They
use drip irrigation so weeds aren't too much of a nuisance,
and the compost is top-dressed on a few occasions during cropping,
which assists in keeping the number of weeds to a minimum.
Concentrated liquid garlic is added to the water and sprayed
to deter insect pests, especially nematodes.
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