A 150 square meter area has been set out for banana cultivation. Ditches (120x70x40cm has been filled with cow dung and peanut shells. With 2 banana suckers per ditch, presently, 400 banana has been planted.
Kankanba Farm Management
During the rainy season, from June to October, we cultivate peanuts. We use tradition methods to do this. The peanut straw is used as animal feed. The peanuts are used for cooking several Gambian dishes.
A 2-hectar land is reserved for cultivating Moringa. 250 Moringa trees has been planted in August 2020 and they are doing very well as they grow to reach maturity.
Located at the entrance area of the farm. 1600 citrus trees with a large variety of oranges (Washington, Neville, Sukur, Japan and several mandarin species.
The perimeter of the farm has cashew spaced at 8m. The Northwest one third of the farm is name Cashew-Kourou with over 1000 cashew trees. Each year, new cashew trees are planted to replace old once.
There are over 10,000 fruit a tree on Kankanba. Because there are over 15 varieties, some will flower throughout the year. This makes Kankanba an ideal place for beekeeping.
We are engaged in all-year-apiculture. 75 colonized Kenyan-improved bee hives are installed in an ecologically well adapted environment. A multitude of varieties of flowers are available to our health and busy bees: mangoes, cashew, oranges, malina, eucalyptus, peanuts, beans and a large variety of annual weeds and other perennials.
This represents the biggest part of the farm. Situated between The Orange and The Cashew Fields. Presently, there are over 1500 mango trees. Five varieties are to be found: Diour, Kent, Kit, Maya and Bakary-Ceesay