The government of Imotong State says a pilot farming project it has opened two months ago will employ hundreds of local youth in the Green Horizon site.
The state government cleared nearly hundreds of hectors of land for agricultural plantation, Radio Emmanuel reports.
Officials from the national Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday visited the Green Horizon project in Bur Payam, six kilometres north of in Torit.
Cornelio Kun Ngu, national Deputy Minister of Agriculture says the project is part of food security across South Sudan where the government tries to fight the looming hunger in the Country.
Gaitano Victor Agalik, Imotong State Agriculture Minister, says if the crops in the farm are not interrupted by shortage of rain, harvest might begin by mid October.
Dozens of young people have already taken up jobs of planting, weeding and driving farm’s tractors, says Ofer Zuntz, Global Group Managing Director.
He says the group is ready to empower the local farmers to produce more food for the company to help in transporting to the markets.
The project will also help ex-soldiers to take up farming and get reintegrated into communities.
Crops like sorghums, maize, cabbage, onion, carrots and many more are already yielding in the Green Horizon farm.