{"id":10555,"date":"2022-11-12T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2022-11-11T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:06:29","slug":"invest-in-agriculture-says-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/invest-in-agriculture-says-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Invest in agriculture, says MP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Adia Jildo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chairperson of information committee in the TNLA has called on the government to have a political will towards improving the agricultural sector to boost food production and fight hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Agany was addressing parliamentarians at the launch of (Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition) citing that the new government has not brought in policies hence affecting the operation of the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWe must have a working political will in the government of South Sudan. The government of South Sudan must take lead in funding the agricultural activities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the act shows reluctancy as donors tend to think the ministry is unserious therefore taking back their funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgricultural ministry and other ministries must have a working policy,\u201d he said citing \u201cFormer ministry in the government had working policies but this government now at work, never brought any policy to the National Legislative Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agany said absence of working policy limits the sector from being funded to carry out their activities citing corrupt officials in the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agany called on the Ministry of Agriculture to have policies so that the government can easily allocate a budget to fund its projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government has been relying on humanitarian agencies instead of the government implementing its duties and leaving the humanitarian organizations to supplement it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to lack of political will from the government, they sometimes return the money back because they say that we are corrupt, and indeed, we are,\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we are not corrupt, why don\u2019t we support the agricultural sector by ourselves and the partners just supplement it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on the government to allocate a portion of the crude oil to the agriculture sector for months to generate income for agricultural activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adia Jildo The chairperson of information committee in the TNLA has called on the government to have a political will towards improving the agricultural sector to boost food production and fight hunger. 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