Women ‘TINAP’ Organization Embarks On Food Production
One of the women’s organizations in Sierra Leone – Women Tinap Organization – has claimed to have embarked on a massive food production with the objective of feeding the country’s booming population.
According to the founder of the organization, Madam Hannah Mary Jaiah, who is Deputy Mayor of Freetown City Council (FCC), the group was founded on 13th February, 2016 at the premises of the council.
The Deputy Mayor said Women Tinap Organization was formed primarily to bring women onboard to speak with one voice and to ensure they contribute to food production in the country in line with President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’s Agenda for Prosperity.
She added that due to the acute food shortage in the country, their first project was to cultivate of large cassava farms in many parts of the country, including Bo and Koinadugu districts.
The Deputy Major expressed her willingness to complement the Agenda for Prosperity through agriculture which she described as an important component in the governance system.
‘’Our organization comprised over one thousand membership and it is operated in six districts,’’ Madam Jaiah disclosed, noting that the Government has subsidized them with machines which they used to produce the local ‘foo-foo’.
The Deputy Mayor specially commended the erstwhile Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), Dr. Joseph Sam Sesay, who is now Senior Adviser to the President, for his effort to support them with the machines. ‘’We have increased our farmland from five to eight acres,’’ Madam Jaiah.
She however highlighted some challenges the organization I facing, such as the lack of sufficient equipment which has deprived them of embarking on commercial farming, adding that most of their members are still practicing the primitive method of farming with insufficient production of food to serve the market.
Madam Jaiah stressed that their organization and that their intention is to extend their activities in the nook and cranny of the country.
She emphasized the significance of agriculture and its contribution to the development of any nation, noting that some of the richest people in the world are farmers and that agriculture would never be promoted without machinery to increase production.
The Deputy Mayor therefore called on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) and philanthropists to aid their food production activities around the country in order to produce abundant food to supply in the market.
Madam Jaiah appreciated the efforts of the general membership of Women Tinap to promote the organization, but however cautioned them to continue putting hands on deck for the successful implementation of their activities.
By Abdulai M. Kamara
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