Farmer Adopts Fruits To Boost Food Security

[Elisabeth Janaina]

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] – 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.

“In 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,” 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.


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