By Manas James<\/p>\n
Administration of Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology in Jonglei state has embarked on a large-scale agricultural project as part of the institution\u2019s academic program. <\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview, Prof. Abraham Matoc Dhal, the University\u2019s Vice-Chancellor, told No. 1 Citizen Daily newspaper that the program will make the institution and its students productive.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a University of Science and Technology, we thought just training and doing research is not enough, we have to train, do research, and create jobs and services,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n He said creation of jobs and services is geared towards poverty eradication.<\/p>\n The university official also pointed out that the program will offer economic prosperity to the local community.<\/p>\n \u201cInvolvement in agriculture through our center in Awerial given by the local community will make us enter the market to sustain the college itself and the university as a whole,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to the vice Chancellor, cash crops like Irish potato, onions, maize, sorghum, sesame, and groundnuts were identified as the institute has 2500 feddans of land for cultivation.<\/p>\n He noted that engaging on the agricultural project will not only enhance training skills of the students, but it also empowers the institute economically.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Philip Mawut Garang, Awerial County Commissioner anticipates that the university\u2019s agricultural project will be fruitful to the community.<\/p>\n A student at the university identified as Agol Samuel, lauded the move by the institute to introduce practical aspect of agriculture into their learning curriculum.<\/p>\n \u201cThe initiative by the university is good. It will be a source of practice for students and help provide research opportunities,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n He added that the project will also create job opportunities for both students and the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Manas James Administration of Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology in Jonglei state has embarked on a large-scale agricultural project as part of the institution\u2019s academic program. In an interview, Prof. Abraham Matoc Dhal, the University\u2019s Vice-Chancellor, told No. 1 Citizen Daily newspaper that the program[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonglei-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320","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=15320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15321,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}