Contact Details:
Head Office
address
Radville Farms
Nemakunku
PO Box 2276
Serrekunda
The Gambia
West Africa
Telephone number:
+220 4394232 (Old Yundum)
4484141
4484055
4371606 (Nema Kunku)
4495717 (Bakau shop/office)
4472898 (Banjul Airport)
Email: radvillefarms@gambia.gm
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Company Profile:
Radville Farms
Limited was founded in 1985 as a private limited company with large
agricultural plantations at Nema Kunku & Toubakuta. It has other offices and
stations at Brikama, and Yundum Airport. The company is the largest
exporter of crops in the Gambia, it accounts for 75%
of exports & cultivates 300 hectares
of vegetables & fruits.
 The
company exports 1,500 tonnes of vegetables and around 700 tonnes of
mangoes yearly. Other crops include okra, French beans, citrus
fruits
and butternut squash. Almost 50 percent of the 300 hectares cultivated
are devoted to organic farming, which is increasingly more attractive
to foreign buyers.
The firm is a subsidiary of U.K. based Wilmoor, to which it
exports its entire harvest. It grows most its own crops, though
occasionally sub-contracts its requirements out locally. Radville has its own
agricultural processing plant and cold storage facilities at Yundum
Airport, where produce is checked, wrapped and boxed before
freighting to the UK. The agribusiness is largely able to get around
the challenges of freight space, in part
by chartering its own cargo aircraft through Wilmoor's in-house
freight airline, and through passenger flights.
Farming Methods:
Radville Farms allows
its land to go fallow over the rainy season and they sow Macuna perens as a green manure. They use drip
irrigation so weeds aren't too much of a nuisance, and the compost is
top-dressed on a few occasions during cropping, which assists in keeping
the number of weeds t a minimum. Concentrated liquid garlic is added to the water
and sprayed to
deter insect pests, especially nematodes.
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