The coordinator of Lokook Investment Company limited is strongly urging farmers in Torit state to cultivate more food crops to avoid over dependency on imported goods.
People of Torit largely depend on food imported from neighbouring Uganda and Kenya.
Speaking to Radio Emmanuel Moses Obiala encourages local farmers to work hard to reduce the high food prices.
‘South Sudan needs to increase agricultural productivity and have big farms so that company should not go to the neighbouring country to bring goods, we need our own food to be produced here,’ he adds.
Moses fears that heavy taxes on food items in the border affect the market prices.
The coordinator made the remark to Radio Emmanuel in Torit.