Poly-bionic Africa Investment Company plans to improve farm produce through organic technology in greater Magwi County of Eastern Equatoria State.
Poly-bionic Africa Investment is South African Investment Company dealing with Organic Farming with its Headquarters in India.
President of the company, Samson Morapedi, says the business aims at transforming farmers by adding more values through organic techniques.
Morapedi adds that the company will begin by building a Research and Development Centre in the county, to train people to understand the technology better.
“We will start with the research and development center so that we showcase the technology, the people can know about the technology, our technology is organic and the farmers in Magwi County are doing organic farming so already there is a collaboration in them, so us being here, we will be able to add more values, the produce coming from Magwi to see how we can add value to the value chains, maize how we can mill it to other products”.
Placid Koch Komakech is the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Forestry in the State.
He explains that the company selected Magwi because of its agricultural practices and production.
Komakech says the project will improve on the road network system and production of maize flour to benefit the state and the whole nation.
“Poly biotic is coming with all the aims, one to improve the production productivity in Magwi County and all the people of Magwi County is going to enjoy that flour, then the road construction is going to be done. The first thing I would like to share with the people of Magwi, they are very hard working people, am very sorry the mother nature didn’t allow us this year and seems the road ahead is very difficult but am asking all to continue tilling the soil we are going to get it”.
County Commissioner, David Otto Remson, discloses that some representatives from the county will be sent to South Africa to witness the project.
“The investors talked about land, of course the land in Magwi is actually there, and we also promised them after they kick off the project the land are going to be given for them, this project is a community project the land will not be the land of South African, they are coming to train [the] people and the people will use the land for themselves by the time they are going, they are going to leave the land the same to the people, we discussed with them, soon the delegations from Magwi they will be going to South Africa, they will go and see the project [in] of South Africa and they will come back and the program is going to kick off.”