WFP to improve roads to help public access markets

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World Food Program or WFP says it plans to improve roads to link products and services of farmers and other entrepreneurs in Equtoria region to access markets.
 
In a press conference on Thursday WFP Country Director Adnan Khan says the roads will enable access to more than twenty markets for ten thousand smallholder farmers in Yambio, Nzara, Torit and Magwi.
 
He believes the farmers need to access the market, in order for the country to increase agricultural production, generate economic growth and reduces hunger.
 
Khan says the roads will link clinics and other facilities and in the process will open up lands for agriculture.
 
 Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Sudan Janet Alberda, says her country committed itself to the UN recovery and resilience project.
 
She says there is need to rebuild the country especially now that the peace agreement implementation is ongoing.
 
The two spoke during the signing ceremony of the feeder roads improvement and maintenance project in Juba on Thursday.
 
WFP received 9 million US dollars as a contribution from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to rehabilitate roads in South Sudan over the next four years.