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South Sudan farmers critical of USAID hybrid maize and fertiliser
Local farmers fear failure for the USAID Seeds for Development project amid suspicion that the fertilisers and seeds will impoverish South Sudanese farmers.
25.04.2024 | Yei
A demonstration plot in Morobo County, July 13.
In a press release implementing agencies of the USAID Seeds for Development project state that South Sudan could reduce food imports by 40 percent in the next three years by scaling up the use of modern agricultural technologies such as improved seeds and fertilisers, as the USAID Seeds for Development project has demonstrated.
The Seeds for Development project supplied and distributed about 1,000 tons of fertiliser (DAP and urea) and some 90 tons of hybrid maize seed for two planting seasons in 2012 and 2013 in South Sudan.
According to Ochan A. Hannington, who spoke with farmers and officials in Central Equatoria’s Morobo and Yei about the project, its acceptance is increasingly becoming an issue:
