Contact Address:
Department of Agricultural Services
Banjul area
Atlantic
Road (Boulevard)
Cape Point,
Bakau
The Gambia,
West Africa
Tel no: +220 4495420 / 4495377
Fax : +220 4494115
Email:
bakary_sonko@yahoo.co.uk
Branches: National
Agricultural Development Agency
Directions:
Go north along the Atlantic Road, go past the roundabout
and it is opposite the Bakau Botanical Gardens. |
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Information:
DAS is a branch of the Ministry
of Agriculture. Its function is to lend support services
to mostly rural village farmers via 25 centres spread out
across The Gambia. This takes the form of crop growing, pest
control and to communicate announcements to farmers and
to co-ordinate development agency aid work. The Department
of Livestock Services also assists livestock producers via
around 100 specialists in 60 geographical areas.
It is made up of a number of divisions called units.
• Agricultural Pest Management
• Agricultural Input
Office
• Agricultural Mechanization
• Communication
• Food and Nutrition
• Horticulture
• Water and Soil Management
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