Torit State Ministry of Agriculture revealed its plan to distribute seeds to flood affected victims and those whose gardens were burnt.
Director of Mechanization and Crop Production in the ministry Awilo Obaale told Radio Emmanuel on Wednesday that a team will be sent to identify and register those whose gardens were wash away by rain and whose garden were burnt.
‘We have targeted farmers who are affected, for example people who are in the lower Kineti where there was flood. These people we are going to give them seeds, those people whose crops got burnt we are going to give them seeds or agriculture inputs we are going to give to them. We have our partners who are with the community in the area they will go down there’, he disclosed.
Obaale appealed to partners to support farmers ahead of the farming season to avoid late cultivation.
He called for massive awareness to people in the grassroots on the importance of agriculture.
The director revealed that this year’s harvest is high compared to the previous years.
‘This year we shall begin our seed distribution earlier, as from now I have made program of work where we shall conduct mobilization and enlightenment of farmers. We shall carry about extension packages with us. We shall mobilize and give them seeds with our partners, FAO has already made a good plan for that program’, he explained.
‘The harvest this year is above average of last year, the harvest these year was ok because we have plenty of rain, the rain was falling at high intercool so, there was no problems of rain this year and the harvest we receive this year without this hazards of floods in other places, insect’s destruction the harvest was ok’, Obaale unveiled
The speaker made a remark to Radio Emanuel in on Tuesday in Torit State Ministry of Agriculture.