Jonglei state turns to prison service farm to feed its population, amidst economic crisis
3 min readJonglei state turns to prison service farm to feed its population
By Mach Samuel Peter, Bor, Jonglei State
August 23, 2016 (SSB) — Jonglei State prison service is expected to produce tones of food this year subsequent by the directorate strategy planting mammoth terra firma in the state with sorghum
Meager food commodities in the market furnish business community to swell prices of the few existing goods, making lives difficult for common citizens without an exception. The percentage increase of dollar against South Sudanese pound has been taken as scapegoat by most foreign and domestic traders as a chance to raise the prices in the Market.
Major General Alfred Manyang Agok the director of Prison service in Jonglei State who has 10 hectares farm said the indigenous must supplement the little they have by engaging in agriculture subsistence farming.
He said the economic crises crippling the nation would have been attuned if the citizens had embarked on agriculture rather than depending on relief food for the last 11 years ever since the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in 2005.
Maj. Manyang further said his directorate had planted kilometers of land with sorghum in response to presidential order that solicit high-ranking officials and citizens in the country to produce sufficient food.
“The Directorate of prison services with it effective machinery and manpower will produce sufficient food as an effort to fight food insecurity and we pledged to improve future agricultural development in Jonglei State and achieved by rain-fed crops or mechanized agriculture,” Manyang Agok told the Dawn News Paper in an exclusive interview.
General Manyang said this year, prisons service practices wet season agriculture despite the inundation of the floodplains an endeavor to curvature food insecurity in the country.
Major roads connecting Payams and counties of Jonglei state and minor roads that join estates of Bor town are completely blemished and remained flooded during this rainy season, hindering delivery of services to the people.
General Mayang Agok thought the principle of dependence must be reversed. He whispered the government of national government is engage on national issues and so the people must collectively assemble roads that association them to the services provided by the government.
“This highway becomes flood with rain water during wet months of the year forcing trucks to capsize, I urge the Jonglei state commissioner of police, director of wild life and the catchment community to support the repair of this roads” General Manyang said.
The two weeks downpour that rained cats and dogs mercilessly destroyed some crops in several parts of Jonglei state but the circumstances is expected to improve as Koreans Contingents of ROK-HMEC drained out water improving a couple of roads and estates of Bor town.
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