GIRAV, DoP Build Capacity on Yield Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting

A two-day refresher training in Yield Sampling, Survey and Measurement Techniques for personnel of the Department of Planning is under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Security is underway…

RRVCD Project Invests in Major Rice Value Chain Development Initiatives

The Gambian Government through the Regional Rice Value Chain Development Project (RRVCDP) commissioned a comprehensive Topography Survey of an area of 3,265 hectares spread across the project intervention…

GIRAV Project Hands Over Sites for the Construction of 2 ALCs worth over D240m to the Contractors

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV) on Thursday August 15, 2024, handed over the sites for the construction of two model Agro-Logistics Centres (ALCs)…

GIRAV Project, Beneficiaries Hand over Sites for the Construction of 40 Model Gardens to Contractors

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project GIRAV and the target beneficiaries for the 40 model Gardens to be established by the project have officially handed over…

Contracts for US$3.7M GIRAV project funded Agro-Logistics Centres signed

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV) on Monday July 29, 2024, signed two Contracts Agreements worth over USD 3.7million with two international firms for…

GIRAV Project Implementing Partners Sensitised on Matching Grant Scheme

GIRAV project Signs Contracts worth D341.4M for the establishment of 40 Model Gardens with Six Contractors

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV) has signed contracts worth over D341 million dalasi with six Gambian contractors for the establishment of 40 model…

GoTG, AfDB funded RVCT Project improving food and nutrition security in the Gambia – say farmers

The Rice Value Chain Transformation Project dubbed RVCTP is contributing meaningfully towards reducing food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty in URR and CRR, according to the farmers.

GIRAV Project gives 250MTs of certified seeds to DoA for distribution

The Gambian Government on Tuesday June, 11, 2024 handed over an assortment of 250 Metric Tons (MTs) of climate smart seeds to the Department of Agriculture (DoA) for onward distribution amongst seed insecure…

MoAL launches final Call for Applications from Individuals and Groups for co-funding from the GIRAV Project

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) on Monday May 13, 2024 launched the final Call for Concept Notes and Applications from Individuals and Groups engaged in agricultural production, marketing,…

World Bank Board Approves an Additional Financing of USD68m for the GIRAV project

The World Bank Board has approved an Additional Financing of USD68 million for the Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV).

GoTG, WB Conclude Negotiations for USD68M as Additional Financing for the GIRAV Project

The Government of the Gambia (GoTG) and the World Bank (WB) has successfully finalized negotiations for a proposed grant amounting to USD68million as Additional Financing for the Gambia Inclusive and Resilient…

GIRAV Project, Stakeholders sensitize 30 communities on GRM

More than Four Hundred and Fifty people drawn from 30 communities across the West Coast Region (WCR), Upper River Region (URR), Central River Region North (CRRN) and the North Bank Region (NBR) have been…

World Bank funded GIRAV Project Gives Seven New Toyota Pick UP Vehicles to its Implementing Partners

Seven Implementing Partners (IPs) of the World Bank Funded GIRAV project received a huge boost on Tuesday 16th January 2024 with the handing over of brand-new Toyota Pick Up Vehicles earmarked to enhance…

GIRAV Project Establishes, Trains Innovation Platforms for Improved Agricultural Productivity and Profitability

A three-day Training of Trainers workshop for 45 stakeholders of Innovation Platforms (IPs) from across the country is underway at Metzy Hotel in Kololi. Participants are drawn from the agriculture advisory…

Agric. PS Encourages Farmers to Keep Their Own Seeds, Embrace Commercial Agriculture

Mr. Mod Secka, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture has reaffirmed the Gambian Government’s commitment towards the attainment of food and nutrition security, sustainable socio-economic growth…

DoA, GIRAV Project train Agriculture Extension Workers on Yield Sampling, Survey and Measurement Techniques

174 Agriculture Extension staff and Regional Agriculture Directors for the seven agricultural regions are being trained in Yield Sampling, Survey and Measurement Techniques at the Jenoi Agricultural Rural…

Stakeholders validate GIRAV project supported E-extension ICT Platform for Agricultural Extension Delivery and Management

Stakeholders in the field crops and vegetables subsectors om Monday 4th September, 2023 validated the content of an E-extension ICT Platform for agricultural extension delivery and management at a one-day…

GIRAV Project Gives 250 MTs of Assorted Certified Maize and Rice seeds to smallholder farmers countrywide

The Gambia Government through the GIRAV project under the Ministry of Agriculture has procured an assortment of climate smart seeds worth over D21,902,000.00 (US$353,258.06) million to support food and…

GIRAV Procures 15,000MT of Assorted Fertilizer

The MoA procured the fertilizer through a USD10 million grant from the Work Bank through the Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV). 

World Bank Funded GIRAV Project Concludes Hands On Training For Rice Farmers In CRRS and URR

One hundred and fifty farmers in the Central River Region South and Upper River Region have been sensitized and trained in a climate-smart agricultural methodology for cultivating rice.

RVCTP Hands Over 60 Tablets To Dept. of Planning Services

The Rice Value Chain Transformation Project (RVCTP) on Wednesday, 29th March 2023 handed over 60 tablets to the department of Planning Services under the Ministry of Agriculture.

World Bank Funded GIRAV Project Gives Laptops Worth Over GMD3M To Key Implementing Partners

Dr. Demba Sabally, Hon. Minister of Agriculture today presided over the official handing over of 35 brand new laptops worth over Three Million Gambian Dalasi (GMD3,000,000.00) to key Implementing Partners…

GIRAV Project Concludes 3days Training For The Project Staff, IPs

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chains Development Project (GIRAV) under the Central Projects Coordinating Unit (CPCU) of the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday concluded a three-day…

Working For Zero Gender Based Violence: Gambian Gov’t-World Bank Funded GIRAV Project Intensifies Fight Against Gender-Based In The Gambia

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chains Development Project (GIRAV) under the Central Projects Coordinating Unit (CPCU) of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday concluded a five days…

CPCU hands over 50 motorcycles to Agric Department

The Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project under the Central Projects Coordinating Unit (CPCU) of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday handed over 50 brand new motorcycles,…