Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – ARDA, a Borama-based NGO created 250 jobs for peasants in a period of three months. The jobs involve setting up mechanisms for collecting rain water and using it to irrigate the farms of Borama. ARDA has also launched a project to increase the productivity of farms in Asha Addo and Sogsogley, located to the west of Borama, where farmers in 50 farms that were dependent on rain water could not continue their farming activities due to lack of rains.
The head of the technical section of ARDA, Mr. Daud Muhammad Khayre told Haatuf correspondent in Borama Muhammad Omar Sheikh that ARDA is trying to stop the deterioration in farm lands and helps the farmers raise their productivity.
Farmers in those areas also complain of attacks against their farms and livestock by troops of monkeys.
The project is financed by the UNDP.












 

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