Agriculture Ministry receives $20 million Dollars

Joseph Sam Sesay, Minister of Agriculture

By Elkass I.L. Sannoh

The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security, Dr. Joseph Sam Sesay, has disclosed that donors have donated the sum of twenty million United States Dollars ($20,000,000.00) in the agriculture sector to boost the food security drive in the country. Talking to AYV in [...]

Addax intensifies $1m farmer development programme

Addax Bioenergy

By Bampia Bundu

Addax Bioenergy (SL) Limited is not only in Sierra Leone to do business but to also contribute to the development of the country as it has not relented in meeting its corporate social responsibility especially within its area of operation.

It could be [...]

Addax certifies 1,300 farmers

One of the beneficiary farmers receiving her certificate

By Bampia Bundu

One of the beneficiary farmers receiving her certificate

Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone Limited over the weekend certified a total of one thousand three hundred (1,300) farmers based in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.

The certification ceremony which was held in one of the Farmers’ [...]

RPSDP: giving life to Koinadugu District

Koinadugu farmers

By Zainab Kanu

The Chief Administrator of the Koinadugu District Council, Mr. Abu Bakarr Daramy, has said that they are fully aware of the existence and performance of the Rural and Private Sector Development Project (RPSDP), as a life giver to the district, especially on the implementation of [...]

Kambia District Farmers Cry for Help

Sam Sesay, Minister of Agriculture

By Maddieu A.A.T. Kabbah

 Sam Sesay, Minister of Agriculture

As they strive to promote the President’s Agenda of Change in the farming sector, farmers in Mambolo Chiefdom, Kambia District are in desperate need of fertilizer to make their crops grows better.

Speaking to AYV Magazine, Abu Bakarr Bangura, a farmer in the chiefdom said [...]

Koinadugu Descendants Plans Big Agro-cultural Show

Cross Section of the KDCC Members

By Bampia Bundu

Cross Section of the KDCC Members

The Koinadugu Development Coordinating Committee (KDCC) is planning to organize a three-day agricultural show in Kabala, from 1-3 December 2011.

This was disclosed in a press conference organized by KDCC at the Grassroots Gender Empowerment Movement (GGEMS) Conference Hall, John Street in Freetown on 12th [...]

Journalists tour Addax’s farmers’ development sites

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By Abdul Kabia

Addax Bioenergy recently took journalists on a tour of the sites where the company is undertaking massive farmers’ development programmes.

The tour commenced with a short briefing at the Makeni office of Addax. Media practitioners were briefed by Addax’s Health Safety Social Environment Manager, Derek Higgo, on the general project of [...]

“We Want to Boost The Agricultural Sector” Says RPSDP Executive

Joseph Sam Sesay, Minister of Agriculture

By Zainab Kanu

Joseph Sam Sesay, Minister of Agriculture

Since the end of the rebel war, efforts have been made by the government and its development partners to carry out development programmes in a bid to recover what was destroyed during the war.

Among the partners the Government has been working with is the [...]