A facilitator working for Welt hunger hilfe organization in Torit of Eastern Equatoria State, urges farmers not to hide information, but share it with their fellow once, to bring transformation to South Sudan.
Amori Bosco made the comments after the closure of three day training on pest management, organized by Welt hunger hilfe.
He said information and ideas should be passed from one person to another.
“Its our responsibility to make sure that we build 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 takes it to the group members. And we also believe that when we do support, we should be looking at the sustainability of what we do. If today I trained you, then tomorrow I go to the farm and I realized you are planting 80 groundnuts per hole then I could have made almost nothing”, said Bosco.
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 so important to me because I learned how to control pests in my garden or to 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 on what he gained from the training, to bring change.
“Before, we didn’t have any knowledge about this, previously we have been wshing to get capacity building. 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 [knowledge] we go and apply them in our respective places, then we shall have our farmers well 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 as well 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 .