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Agricultural Program
The Southern Sudan is a potential rich and fertile land in natural resources and agricultural outputs.
Rainfall is plenty since it lies within the tropical zone. Thus, if improved, would make the Southern
Sudan a world food basket. However, in the recent years there has been persistent drought as a
result of deforestation and desert encroachment into the Southern Sudan regions due to convectional
weapons used during the two decades of civil war in Southern Sudan and the global warming. The civil
war had a significant impact on agriculture. Tens of thousands of local population had been displaced
from their homesteads and farmlands. In addition, there are cases of pests such as locust that destroy
crops during their early growth. This results to perpetual famine across the ten states in Southern
Sudan. Consequently, thousands of Southern Sudanese families live on the very edge of survival.
Although currently relative peace prevails, granting freedom for people to return to their original
homesteads where they can practice subsistence cultivation, the growing population in Southern Sudan
continues to depend on imported foodstuff from Uganda and Kenya. However, there is an unbelievable
skyrocketing price for food commodities. In addition, by the time they reached Southern Sudan,
some of them have already become outdated or even decayed --which is the direct cause of many
diseases and death. The food commodities are also insufficient to meet the high demand of the
total population. Owing to the fact that many citizens are jobless and poor, consequently,
they cannot afford to meet the high market prices in Southern Sudan.
The Young Shepherds is seeking funding to purchase agricultural tools especially farming tractors,
harvesting equipment, and water pumps in order to initiate modern agricultural experiments in
Southern Sudan. These will include cultivation of a variety of local crops such as African corn,
groundnuts, beans, tomatoes, Irish and sweet potatoes, and various vegetables and other drought
resistant plans such as the cassava and African yams to alleviate hunger from the community,
especially during month of July.
The Young Shepherds values mixed-farming agriculture to rescue the community from famine,
and to encourage the local farmers to produce abundant food stuff for both local consumption
and trade. Therefore, the Young Shepherds is committed and dedicated to:
- Introducing modern agricultural machinery to farmers to enable them to cultivate large acres
of various crops such that subsistence farming becomes less common;
- Training the local farmers how to operate modern agricultural equipment whose purpose is
to alleviate manual labor, increase production and improve the quality of farm life in modern
Southern Sudan.
- Supplying seeds of various types to the local farmers.
- Promoting mixed-farming methods to enable local farmers to learn how to raise livestock
such as cattle, sheep, goats, pork, rabbit, and poultry as well as fishery and honey processing.
Products from livestock such as meat, eggs, milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, honey, leather and
wool will be marketed to generate income and provide nutritious food stuff for the hospitals,
schools and the local community at large.
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