Returnee families settling in Imurok Payam of Eastern Equatoria state are set to receive training on animal-traction and modern agriculture practices.
Mr. Simon Kebi is the Project Manager for “Shelter for Life International”, the organization that implements the project.He told Radio Emmanuel that the NGO wants to lead the returnees from survival farming to modern commercial agriculture.
Mr. Kebi said that the organization targets to empower members of 50 families of Imurok in Agricultural Livelihood Development that includes the use of oxen for traction.
He said that the organization provides farmers with seeds and tools to boost production in the payam.
The farmers are to get a mixed bag of seeds including sorghum, millet, beans, simsim, maize, groundnuts and cassava stems together with pangas, hoes, slashes and axes to till the land.