Western Bahr El-Ghazal State Cooperative farmers from three counties of Jur River, Raja and Wau have received the first pilot loan scheme with the sum of 255 thousand South Sudanese Pounds from South Sudan Rural Development Program or SORUDEV and Hope Agency for Relief and Development or HARD.
HARD Program Manager Evans Owino says the loan scheme aims at boosting commercial agricultural productivity to enrich local market.
The Program Manager says farmers will repay the loan with an interest rate of 15 percent by February 2016.
Manager Owino acknowledges that farmers face several problems and that providing seeds and tools alone may not be helpful enough.
With the loan dished to the farmers, the manager expects them to decide on what to address with the cash capital in their farming projects.
One of the beneficiaries says they are ready to fight hunger in Western Bahr El Ghazal State through maximum production for sale with modern farming tools in place.