 
Contact Address:
Radville
Farms Gambia Co. Ltd.
Banjul area head office
Nemakunku Village
PO Box 2276 Serrekunda
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 439 4232 (Old Yundum)
4495717 (Bakau shop/office)
447 2388 (Banjul Airport)
Fax: 572
0254
Email: wealmoor@wealmoor.co.uk
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Information:
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.
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 Wealmoor, to
which it exports its entire harvest. It grows most of
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 to a minimum. Concentrated liquid
garlic is added to the water and sprayed to deter insect
pests, especially nematodes. |
