St Charles Lwanga Ibba Parish Priest in Tombura-Yambio Catholic Diocese urges people to cultivate more food to fight hunger in Western Equatoria and South Sudan at large.
Fr Joachim Oboi says production of enough food would reduce prices of food commodities and that when people have their own products they feed themselves independently.
He mentions that one basin of cassava flour is now 35 Pounds and that of groundnuts went to 50 Pounds compared to previous prices of 15 to 25 Pounds, attributing the rise to scarcity of hard currency in South Sudan.
Fr Oboi reveals that Ibba parish this year opened three acres ready to produce more food, adding that Christians are growing in faith and initiative programme of taking care of the poor people in the community.
He mentioned that he baptized 20 children last Sunday in Madebe Centre.