A facilitator working for Welt Hunger Hilfe Organization in Torit, urges farmers not to hide information from others, but share it to bring transformation to South Sudan.
Amori Bosco made the comments after the closure of three day training on pests management, organized by Welt hunger hilfe.
He said information and ideas should be passed from one person to another.
“It is our responsibility to make sure that we built the capacity of our partners, including other stakeholders. The core of this training was to target people who have to be trained as trainees. The information behind is that, if you are trained today, you would have to go tomorrow and train other people. Knowledge should not be kept with one person. So I believe the little that we have given to you, take it to the group members. And we also believed that when we do support you, we should be looking at the sustainability of what we do. If today I train you, then tomorrow I go to the farm and realize you are planting 80 groundnuts per a hole, then I could have made almost nothing”.
One of the participants, Achayo Taban says she benefited a lot from the training, especially on pests control mechanisms.
She pledges to share the knowledge acquired to her fellow farmers.
“Actually, the training has been more important to me because I learned how to control pests in my garden or teach other farmers how to manage and control pests in their garden and how to make local pesticides. What I have to do is, to begin training others to know how these things are done. That is why I will develop more understanding about the training”.
Another participant, Lokang Charles, also promises to teach his colleagues to bring change.
“Before we didn’t have any knowledge about this, previously we have been wishing to gain capacity building to apply the knowledge, but now since we are given, it is not going to end with us, but we are going to give also to the people who are there on the ground because knowledge is always a transfer, they give to us today, tomorrow we shall give for the benefit of our communities”.
Another participant, Onek James, encourages fellow participants to put into practice the lesson learned to obtain good harvest.
“If what we are given actually we go and apply them in our respective places, then we shall have our farmers transformed from where they are, to the next level because we heard right from the beginning of the training, we actually learnt how we can approach our farmers, how we can advise our fellow farmers and if you take exactly what is given from here, I think all the farmers will adopt the innovation and all people will go on the same tract, meaning that people will change”.
The training targeted 20 participants from Magwi and Obbo Payams, including Torit County Agriculture Department.