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A Self Help Africa \u2018demonstration farm\u2019 is helping the next generation of farmers in The Gambia grow more organic fruit and vegetables to eat and sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally, The Gambia has relied heavily on imported fruit and vegetables to stock markets and dinner plates. This limits farmers\u2019 earning potential and costing families more. But, Self Help Africa’s demonstration farm \u2013 managed by Ousman Manneh and his small team of agricultural experts \u2013 has been showcasing climate-smart and chemical-free growing practices to local communities, farmers and even school pupils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite climate-related weather changes, Ousman and his team are successfully growing papayas, bananas, pineapples, strawberries, ginger and garlic. A natural pesticide mixed on site allows crops to grow chemical-free. A focus on recycling \u2018waste\u2019 includes using discarded plastic as mulch and tyres as planting beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis demonstration farm is a place where people can come and learn,\u201d Ousman said. \u201cWe bring students, farmers, even civil servants to show them what they believe cannot be grown in The Gambia, can be grown here. Seeing is believing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration farm has also successfully grown onions during the rainy season, which farmers didn\u2019t do previously. The women-led co-operative farms we support across The Gambia are now growing them year-round, with great results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Kebba Konateh sprays natural pesticide produced on the farm to keep crops healthy. Pic credit: Bacary Mane for SHA\/UP Jan 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sheikh Tijan Jallow, coordinator of the Transforming Access to Markets project and a farmer himself, said: \u201cWe try to show people that within farming you can have a stable source of livelihood. The poverty level here [is rising], it\u2019s difficult to cope, but we have to bear with it because if we don\u2019t feed the nation, nobody will do it for us. We have to take up the opportunity, the challenge, and know that we must grow what we eat and eat what we grow in our country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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