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Thursday, December 4, 2008
From the beginning of this year’s rainy season, Gambians and non Gambians alike have set for themselves a target to accomplish - the goal is for ourselves, for our children and for our nation; and it is also the goal of a man whose preoccupation has been to champion noble courses of this nature, the president of the Republic, Professor Alhaji Yahya Jammeh.
The back-to-the land ideology has become accepted by all Gambians as we have to come to learn from experience at the global level. If there is anything we have all come to accept unanimously, it is that you are assured of food security only when you take responsibility of your source of feeding.
This was tremendously demonstrated in the outpouring of a mass number of people in Kanilai and other places, at the start of the season. And as we have said before, it elucidates the fact that the people are determined to prove the president right and transform the country into the food self-sufficient nation we all envisage, which can propel the engine of sustainable development.
By all account, our prayers have been answered by God. As expected, the president’s farms, which by extension is everybody’s farm, has registered remarkable success. The buzzword had always been ‘bumper harvest.’ And bumper harvest we have indeed achieved.
However, the task is still unaccomplished as harvesting is far from complete. As we had turned out in our numbers to cultivate the farm at the start of the season, so should we come out again to complete the work. We certainly did not do that just for mere beautification or whatsoever but to reap the benefits of our sweat at the end of the day.
We therefore join the rest of goodwill ambassadors in calling for more help. Besides, production is never complete if the goods do not reach the consumer. The Gambia is on the road to food self-sufficiency and we are optimistic that people will not let their sacrifice go in vain.
The back-to-the land ideology has become accepted by all Gambians as we have to come to learn from experience at the global level. If there is anything we have all come to accept unanimously, it is that you are assured of food security only when you take responsibility of your source of feeding.
This was tremendously demonstrated in the outpouring of a mass number of people in Kanilai and other places, at the start of the season. And as we have said before, it elucidates the fact that the people are determined to prove the president right and transform the country into the food self-sufficient nation we all envisage, which can propel the engine of sustainable development.
By all account, our prayers have been answered by God. As expected, the president’s farms, which by extension is everybody’s farm, has registered remarkable success. The buzzword had always been ‘bumper harvest.’ And bumper harvest we have indeed achieved.
However, the task is still unaccomplished as harvesting is far from complete. As we had turned out in our numbers to cultivate the farm at the start of the season, so should we come out again to complete the work. We certainly did not do that just for mere beautification or whatsoever but to reap the benefits of our sweat at the end of the day.
We therefore join the rest of goodwill ambassadors in calling for more help. Besides, production is never complete if the goods do not reach the consumer. The Gambia is on the road to food self-sufficiency and we are optimistic that people will not let their sacrifice go in vain.
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