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Traditional West African Rice Growing in the Hudson Valley

Posted on April 21, 2025June 29, 2025
Nfamara Badjie on his rice farm in Ulster Park, N.Y.


Nfamara Badjie on his rice farm in Ulster Park, N.Y. Credit: modernfarmer.com

 

Nfamara Badjie, a Gambian farmer, applies his generational knowledge to growing rice in an unexpected climate, Ulster Park, New York with the help of Eirka Styger, an agronomist from Cornell University. Read on to learn how  Badjie is bringing a tradition of the Jola to the United States.

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