{"id":12964,"date":"2023-04-19T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2023-04-18T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:28:55","slug":"south-sudanese-refugees-receive-farm-inputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/south-sudanese-refugees-receive-farm-inputs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudanese refugees receive farm inputs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Jurugo Emmanuel Ogasto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the onset of the rainy season, several farmers, including South Sudanese refugees residing in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe district, have been supported with farm inputs and seeds as part of efforts to address food insecurity in the camps.<br>The intervention comes at a time when a section of refugees have already crossed back to South Sudan, citing reduced food ratios from\u00a0World Food Programme last year.<br>The farm inputs were donated by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) with support from the European Union Trust Fund yesterday.<br>Speaking No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper, Cyrus\u00a0Kolovo\u00a0one of the\u00a0beneficiaries,\u00a0said these farm inputs will help them to eradicate poverty in the settlement.<br>\u2018\u2019When\u00a0you get food from the farm, it is not costly and you can save money for other things like school\u00a0fees,\u2019\u2019\u00a0he said.<br>Mr.\u00a0Jogo\u00a0Titus, the refugee desk officer in Yumbe\u00a0district,\u00a0urged both the South Sudanese refugees and Ugandan nationals to make use of what they have received.<br>\u2018\u2019I\u00a0know many would wish to sell these things but I ask you to get to your farms and make use of\u00a0it,\u2019\u2019\u00a0he urged.<br>Utua Cezira,\u00a0a\u00a0woman\u00a0leader in the\u00a0settlement,\u00a0suggested that men and their wives should come together and plan what they have got from the NGOs.<br>\u2018\u2019I\u00a0ask my fellow women to plan together with their\u00a0husbands,&#8221;\u00a0she said.<br>Reports indicate that more than 1,000 South Sudanese have voluntarily gone back to their home country because of hunger with\u00a0aim of\u00a0tilling in\u00a0their arable land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jurugo Emmanuel Ogasto With the onset of the rainy season, several farmers, including South Sudanese refugees residing in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe district, have been supported with farm inputs and seeds as part of efforts to address food insecurity in the camps.The intervention comes at a time<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/south-sudanese-refugees-receive-farm-inputs\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Farmers-planting-Crops-File-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12966,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions\/12966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}