{"id":4581,"date":"2022-04-11T04:45:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2022-04-11T04:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T04:45:57","slug":"minister-urges-partners-to-boost-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/11\/minister-urges-partners-to-boost-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister urges partners to boost agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Peter-Mayen-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Peter-Mayen-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Peter-Mayen-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Peter-Mayen-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Peter-Mayen.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Peter Mayen\/Photo: Taban Henry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Akol Madut Ngong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture and food Security in partnership with Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), UNIEF and World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday held a one-day workshop at Pyramid Continental Hotel-Juba, to assess the deteriorating food insecurity across South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the participants, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management Peter Mayen urged relevant stakeholders to support Agriculture cooperative societies in the country to ensure that food is provided to those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWe have to think on the value and the importance of the report and the action that it requires, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to be part of all these issues of food insecurity and Humanitarian situation in the country\u201d Peter Mayen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a country, \u201cwe have been ultimately facing challenges but not only South Sudan, it\u2019s the whole world as a result of climate change, rain is rising here in Juba in far northeast, temperature has created a challenge that has reduced the country\u2019s ability to produce more food but we believe our partners will create a conducive environment in this country,\u201d Minister Mayen explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were facing four challenges: the Humanitarian situation, cultural activities at the lower level, irrigation and the agricultural cooperative society, we have to support them in order to boost production,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management definitely is working closely with the Ministry of Agriculture to ensure that food is provided on the table for the needy people\u201d Mayen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Akol Madut Ngong The Ministry of Agriculture and food Security in partnership with Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), UNIEF and World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday held a one-day workshop at Pyramid Continental Hotel-Juba, to assess the deteriorating food insecurity across South Sudan. Addressing the participants, the Minister of<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/11\/minister-urges-partners-to-boost-agriculture\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","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=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4583,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}