Matia Samuel
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Wani William speaks at the agribusiness innovation event. [Matia Samuel, The City Review]
The Executive Director of Magwi College of Agribusiness and Management Science Wani William called the government and the public to encourage agribusiness to improve local production.
Speaking at the agribusiness exhibition event in Juba yesterday, Wani said South Sudanese are capable of producing several food products which are yet to be valued, as many people only rate imported products.
“All of us, we need to move together to work hand in hand so that we can champion Agribusiness in South Sudan,” he appealed.
“It is difficult sometimes to compete with food coming from outside in terms of quality with the ideology that we are producing inferior products which is not right,” he added.
He further urged that farmers be equipped with modern farming tools to help them increase their output.
“One of the challenges our farmers face where I come from is that most of our agro-dealers and farmers are still using hand hoes. We need to increase their production to make sure that the production we are talking about comes into existence,” he said.
Meanwhile, the country team leader for the Two-Scale program in South Sudan, Alana Sebit, said that there are a lot of innovators and medium and small enterprises who are facing challenges of limited financial support.
“We have the innovators, we have the medium-small enterprises that are struggling to ensure that their products are available that would ensure that there are inputs the farmers need to enable the products to reach the market,” he said, adding, “the products reach the markets but there is a lot of turning points that those small medium enterprises, including our farmers, are going through in terms of finances.”
He added that “it is a call for us as actors, innovators, as financial institutes and other development agencies that we pull resources to address the critical challenge that we are facing in the agribusiness.”
Source: The City Review South Sudan
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