Important day for NARI

As part of his engagement in the Gambia, The Taiwanese president Ma ying geou visited the national agricultural research institute (NARI) where he made a tour of NARI’s facilities and met some of their staff. This also coincides with the training workshop on “crop cultivation and production” organized by the Taiwanese ICDF programme where participants came from Haiti, Swaziland and in The Gambia. The Taiwanese president therefore met an ongoing practical session on this training workshop at NARI premises and exchange words with the participants.Please check the link: http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/president-ma-visits-banjulinding-womens-garden-others

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With the lunching of the program of accelerated growth and employment "Page" in my country, which also have to do with Gambia to be a food self sufficient Country by the next five years, my institution NARI have a big challenge because agricultural research forms an integral part in realizing this vision. We are willing and committed to see that this noble vision is realized.

Workshop on communication

A workshop meant for the strengthening of  NARS members in area of communication in West and Central Africa was organized by CORAF/WECARD from 11-14 of October in Togo. I was privilege to attend this important workshop as the representative of my institute NARI-Gambia. This Program therefore has enlighten my vision in the area of communication and i believe if the right platform is provided, the knowledge i gain will benefit to a great extend my institution in area of information disseminated and relaying.

Socialization

At community level our youth organization BYDS are making great strives. First to bring the youths within Brusubi and its surrounding together in one harmony and subsequently engaging them in youth related activities that are gear towards community  development..Recently BYDS conduct a very fruitful socialization program to foster more unity and co-operation within members and interested members. I am therefore very please to be part of The Brusubi Youth Development Society (BYDS).

Activites this summer

This summer is going to be a busy one for the Pest management unit of NARI. There are lots of fields trials to be conducted. I am sure that we will execute them successfully. My colleagues and my work mates are determine . Some of the trails have to do with :

• Aflatoxin contamination on groundnut.
• Striga weed management on maize.
• The use of bonaticals against nematodes
• Study on Fruitfly diversity in the Gambia, among others trails.

Surely and slowly we come up with technologies to boast agricultural productivity in this Country.

Blogger

Trying to understand the blogger application better and other Google applications, to further build on the exciting knowledge gain from the web 2.0 training i benefited from.Thanks to CTA We are grateful, we will surely share the knowledge we gain with others.

My impression on web 2.0 training

The training on web 2.0 is a remarkable one. It exposes participants to vital communication skills using the internet such as iGoogle, blog etc...I believe the training will help all participants in packaging and sharing knowledge more effectively.