UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will provide seeds and tools to 150 thousand families mid this year to help improve and increase food production among farmers in southern Sudan.
Joseph Okidi is the FAO programme officer in the Emergency and Rehabilitation Coordination Unit.He told SCR News that in this year his agency is targeting returnees and internally displaced people and vulnerable residents who will receive groundnuts, maize and beans among other seeds.
Mr. Okidi added that each farmer will get 17 kilograms of assorted seeds.
While welcoming the progress of production, Mr. Okiti said FAO faces budget shortages.
He mentioned that poor infrastructure hampers the transporting of seeds from one place to another when rains come.
Two hundred metric tons of seeds have already been received.
Distribution is expected to take before the rains come.