ABSTRACT
Marketing outlets consist of local markets, village traders, the Gambian Produce and Marketing Board, and "other sources." Credit is available primarily from cooperatives, but also from Rural Development Projects and banks. Certain crops are farmed in The Gambia according to the sex of the farmer. Groundnuts are traditionally a male crop although women are beginning to grow more. In 1979 the Department of Agriculture in The Gambia introduced a cereal technology package to encourage an increase in the production of millet, maize, sorghum, and upland rice. The Mixed Farming Project (MFP) began in The Gambia in 1981. The objective of this project was "to improve the well-being of the rural people through intensified integration of crop and livestock production within existing Gambian farming systems." In numerous Gambian villages, the women have organized women's societies. The MFP Women's Program designed a project to introduce maize-cowpea intercropping to the women's societies during the 1985 growing season.
