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The most prominent Agricultural Rice growing area is Sapu in Central River Region
Rice is a staple food crop grown and imported to The Gambia, the base for most dishes. Grown in the rainy season, it looks like grain before processing, which involves pounding in a mortar with a pestle. There are several varieties available at the market. These staple crop is grown in what is called a […]
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Production of food crops, comprising cereals and semi intensive cash crop products
Generally Gambian agriculture has been characterised by subsistence production of food crops, comprising cereals (early millet, late millet, maize, sorghum, rice), semi intensive cash crop production (groundnut, cotton, sesame and horticulture). Production of food commodities for local consumption heavily depends on...
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Market price information generated by direct investigation through the face-to-face interview.
In all the market surveys conducted, most of the data/information is obtained by direct investigation through face-to-face interviews where Prices are solicited from respondents’ coupled with physical weighing of the commodities in order to make a vivid determination of the price /Kilo of a commodity. Market data is...
