Babou Sarr, director of the Tanji Community Centre, has revealed that the youths of Kombo South will, this year, during the course of the  rainy season, cultivate 10 hectares of Nerica rice at the Seyfo Farm in Kombo South.

The Tanji Community Centre boss made this revelation on Sunday, 19th July 2009, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer, at the Seyfo Farm. Sarr stated that the main objective of the project is to bring the youths of Kombo South together in a non-partisan manner.

"We felt it is important to have a farm in Kombo South where we will work during the reason," he said. Sarr added that their will to farm has been boosted by the president's donation of tractors to their region. Cherno Jawla, a youth representative at the Brikama Area Council, said that the youths of Kombo South are doing this in response to the president's 'back to the land' initiative.

According to him, one cannot be self reliant without food self sufficiency, and it is based on this that the youths deemed it necessary to respond to the call