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Information:
NAWFA is an organisation with a membership of around 48,000
female farmers, working in over 1,000 Gambian villages. It
was previously committed to a 5 year development plan (2007-2011)
on combined livestock
and crop
production, marketing and processing.
The aim of the program was to encourage commercially viable
agriculture
and food
security among women farmers in order to remove them from
subsistence agriculture
and onto economic self-sufficiency.
The various areas it focuses on are oilseeds and cereals,
agricultural produce marketing, capacity
building, crop production techniques, value added processing,
rearing of chickens and small ruminants such as goats and
sheep as well as savings
and credit cooperative schemes.
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