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“I want to continue to do pig farming, get a bigger piece of land and start real production.
I now have 40 pigs and hope in the next 10 years to grow this to a farm where I have 200 or 300 pigs.
“Before the Ampa Awagna training camp I used traditional methods. Now I know the pigs don’t need to get out all the time – the modern way is to keep them in the shelter as when they wander around they can bring back diseases.
“If you feed a pig well and it fattens up in 18 months, you can sell a big pig for its meat for 35,000 – 50,000 CFA [£54 – £76], but if you don’t feed it well it can take 2 years to get to this size.
“So for us the challenge is finding food for the pigs and then selling the meat – there is really good money this way. I also have ambitions to sell my pigs as far as Ziguinchor to get a better price.
“I know it will be difficult to get more land but we will challenge ourselves. No matter how difficult it is we will do it. I am passionate and happy – I love being a pig farmer.”
Her mother, Colette, said: “She will succeed, I have no doubt. I am very positive about the future.”
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