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| New Minister of Agriculture, Solomon Owens |
The
Gambia government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, has disclosed that it “urgently
needed” twenty three million U.S dollars to provide food, seeds, and fertilizer
to the entire farming population as the country declared 2011-2012 farming season a failure resulting from severe crop
failures and a corresponding soaring of food prices.
A statement from the Ministry of Agriculture, formally announcing the national crop failure, stated that the post-harvest assessment of the 2011 farming season, which was characterised by below-normal and poorly distributed rainfall, indicated a reduction in total crop production of more than 70%.
