Minister Urges Youth To Participate In Agriculture Production

This article was last updated on May 25, 2022

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Addressing a four-day workshop launched by Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) and Organization for Non-violence and Development (ONAD) that brought about 20 youth from the different parts of the country, Achan also cautioned youth of malpractices that degrade the environment particularly forests.

She was very critical on massive involvement of the youth into charcoal burning as a quickest way of earning money. She said government is on alert on the matter and has drafted a penalty awaiting approval to regularize the issue of charcoal burning in the country.

“Agriculture is a private sector lead and I want you to look at this as a business,” Achan told the youth. “It is very important that youth should get engaged to work with government and the county for not only agriculture but peace too.”

“Let’s look at both quantity and quality of food production. I urge the youth to be monitors to the government policies,” she added.

She also called youth to be peace makers in the communities, outlining that, the issue of peace instability has proven today as one of the critical challenges affecting the agricultural sector in country, pointing out practices of cattle rustling that create tribal conflicts.

Achan said her Ministry has so far drafted an agriculture policy framework that is now pending ratification by the National Assembly, adding the frame work aims at boosting agriculture in the country.

She has called on the youth to specialize in the agricultural sector as marketers, producers, and transporters to commercialize the sector.

She said government has initiatives through the agricultural bank to boost all these efforts.

Ms. Johanna Poutanen CMI Field Coordinator said that, the four day workshop was an organization of youth dialogue which aims at offering a long term-dialogue platform for youth to discuss the conflict and challenges in the new Republic of South Sudan.