Farmer Adopts Fruits To Boost Food Security
A farmer in Bor has started fruit farming to help fight food insecurity and increase on income received from his farm. 17 May 2013 Paul Alim Amol said he gets an average of 500 South Sudanese pounds per fruit tree. [Jacob Achiek Jok] By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 17 May 2013 [Gurtong] β Paul Alim Amol has said that some trees in his farm have started producing and some of fruits will start producing later this year. Alim said he has 800 trees even though some were carried out by floods two years ago. He said that they will start recording the production of the fruit trees. βIn terms of productivity of fruits like Mango, Lemon and Guava, we shall start recording the production of these 100 mango, 100 lemon to see how much shall we get in terms of food security, this is the starting project, is now 7 years old, more productivity is expected this year,β he said. He said productivity depends on the season and varies with the average fruits per tree earning about 500 South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) because the trees are young they have few branches but the value will increase as they grow. He started with his own savings of 20,000 SSP and the World Food Program (WFP) offered him 100 bags of sorghum later as support on the Food for Asset program. Posted in: Home, Business, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or889YQ7ghGii0t3ArJ8H5R0Js7msxQ8JJXXzg6Z7AWMg%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
