Gambia: Master Farmers SG Request Gov’t to Reconsider Prices of Fertilizer –

By: Nyima Sillah

Master Farmers’ Cooperative Association (MaFCA), Secretary General, Amadou Bah, requested the government to reconsider the price of fertilizer noting that 80% of farmers are small-scale farmers who cannot afford to purchase specific bags of fertilizer for their produce. 

According to him, if the government says it contributing immensely to the importation of fertilizers with millions of dalasi while farmers are still not getting enough fertilizer needed…