By Charles K Mark<\/p>\n
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Farmers participating in an inclusive agribusiness club exhibition in Juba have voiced concerns about the prevailing insecurity that hampers their ability to engage in large-scale agricultural production.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n They believe that with improved security measures and government support, the country has the potential to significantly boost its agricultural output.<\/p>\n Mary Benjamin Loki, the owner of “Korofo Junubna,” a local company specializing in the production of greens, lamented the lack of stability and its impact on her farming activities.<\/p>\n While she successfully exports dried greens via DHL to Western countries, she emphasized the need for a secure environment to expand her production capacity.<\/p>\n According to the farmer, a full sack of processed dried greens can be harvested from a garden measuring 4 feet by 8 feet.<\/p>\n \u201cI gain triple or America or Canada, one pack of that dried greens is $10,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n Loki who is also the Director-General of the National Food Reserve in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security reiterated that the country could achieve food security through a stronger focus on agriculture.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at all these. What can\u2019t we produce? She said while pointing to the locally produced goods at the exhibition.<\/p>\n \u201cAll these you see here are produced locally. So, if farmers are capacitated with modern technology, they are more than able.\u201d<\/p>\n She revealed that the demand for South Sudanese farm produces abroad is high, but the supply is low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charles K Mark Farmers participating in an inclusive agribusiness club exhibition in Juba have voiced concerns about the prevailing insecurity that hampers their ability to engage in large-scale agricultural production. They believe that with improved security measures and government support, the country has the potential to significantly boost[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A-display-of-packaged-groundnut-seeds.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23788","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23790,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23788\/revisions\/23790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}