Agriculture

The NAO, EU and Community Stakeholders have witnessed the first harvest of sweet peppers and tomatoes using the greenhouse technology by youths in Mange-Bureh Community, Bureh Chiefdom, Port Loko District. One of the grantees under […]

Solidaridad West Africa and The Cotton Tree Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry engaged stakeholders and policymakers in a one-day training workshop on the popularization of three national Tree Crops Policies […]

In many parts of the world, farmers have adapted hoes and cultivating tools so they can be pulled by people, animals or engines. Animal traction is the use of animals to pull farm equipment, vehicles, […]

The Boosting Agriculture and Food Security/Project Coordination Unit (BAFS/PCU with funding from the EU in Sierra Leone has conducted a validation workshop of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework of the BAFS grantee projects developed […]

Intercropping cocoa, oil palm and cashew crops with other food crops such as groundnuts, cassava, sweet potatoes, and vegetables is an innovative farming technique Solidaridad West Africa has introduced to farmer beneficiaries in Sierra Leone. […]

The Technical Assistant (TA) Finance and Procurement who also is the Deputy Head of the Technical Assistance Team (TAT), Guy Chimimba, the Imprest Accounting Officer (IAO), Jonathan Lamboi of the BAFS Project Coordination Unit (BAFS/PCU) […]

In May this year, the European Union approved for the utilization of over 129,000 Euro to SLARI through the National Authorising Office (NAO) to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 thereby targeting 1000 vulnerable farmers […]

The Technical Assistant (TA) Finance and Procurement who is also Deputy Head of the Technical Assistance Team (TAT), Guy Chimimba, the Imprest Accounting Officer (IAO), Jonathan Lamboi and the Monitoring and Evaluating (M&E) Officer, Alfred […]

The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry together with technical team from the ministry have visited the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute’s (SLARi) COVID emergency response farms project funded by the European Union to monitor, evaluate […]

The Technical Assistant (TA) Finance and Procurement who also is the Deputy Head of the Technical Assistance Team (TAT), Guy Chimimba and the Imprest Accounting Officer (IAO), Jonathan Lamboi of the BAFS Project Coordination Unit […]