Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has donated a consignment of
information technology materials such as five computers (HP Elite Desk 800 G2
TWR) three laptops, five printers, sixty calculators, one photocopier, three
GPS (Garmin GPS map 64st) and twenty stapling machines to the Department of
Livestock Services at a cost of 17,446.96 U.S dollars equivalent to 775,692
dalasi. The items are earmarked for next month’s countrywide livestock census.
The
Director General of the department of livestock, Dr. Duto Sainy Fofana, thanked
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for what he
described as a timely intervention.
He
said the donation of information technology accessories was a sign of good
partnership between the FAO-UN and the Department of Livestock Services under
the Ministry of Agriculture. This will certainly go a long way towards
addressing the problem of logistics in the forthcoming livestock census.
Speaking
shortly after presentation ceremony held at the FAO-UN office in Fajara, the
Deputy Director General, Mr. Lamin Saine, said the items donated would greatly
ease some of the challenges relating to data collection, processing, storage
and management.
Livestock
officials are getting ready to cover the length and breadth of the country for
what many describe as a painstaking one-month livestock census, scheduled to
commence on October 10th2016.
The
latest presentation of logistical equipment comes barely one month after the
Gambia Government and the FAO signed a
400,000 thousand dollars project (17,252,000.00 dalasi) designed to
address the lack of accurate and reliable livestock data in the country.