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Agriculture Project is up and running

 February 2014

The tractor is shipped.

The rented tractor is shipped to Massa using the project’s ferry.

For the agriculture project we shipped 2 tractors to Massa and Bengani and the transport itself was already quite challenging as you can see from the pictures below. One the engines is an old Fendt tractor imported from Germany and the other one is a rented tractor that was procured locally in the project region. In the mean time, both have been put to use but unfortunately the rented tractor did suffer from some technical issues.

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Agriculture Project has started – but will need more funding

June 2012

With support from the Germany Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, KNSL and PYD have started a project to help increase agricultural production in Sowa Chiefdom in the South of Sierra Leone. Within this project 300 young subsistence farmers will be trained. In order to complete this project we will need additional funds and we would be very grateful for donations to this project. Please, read the detail information in the attached Appeal for Donations to Support the Agricultural Project in Sierra Leone.