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Momodou
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 Posted - 06 Jan 2007 : 17:53:54
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FARMERS WORRIED ABOUT TRADE SEASON
By Abdoulie G. Dibba
Farmers around the country are worried about this year’s trade season. Talking to this reporter, farmers noted that the late start of the trade season is a cause for concern to them. They indicated that though their previous seccos have even been cleared, up to the time they were talking to this reporter, the seccos were yet to be fenced.
The farmers expressed dissatisfaction with this year’s producer price of D6, 500 per tonne. They pointed out that the policy that farmers who transport their nuts to the GGC depots would be paid D7, 500 per tonne does not benefit the farmers but the buying agents, since no farmer can afford to hire a transport to evacuate their nuts.
This reporter was taken to different stores by farmers to see for himself how their nuts are stored and how the nuts have started to be infected by insects. The farmers concluded by saying that the government should review its policy on the marketing of groundnuts but to which government has emphasised over and over again that it is abdicating its responsibility in the buying of groundnuts.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 001/2007, 3-4 January, 2007
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