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AGRICULTURE: FOOD SECURITY

crops. So we can say 2010, 2011 we have been mainly engaged why the farm only sold its produce within the county. “The
in that. This is partly because we do not have laboratories for road was not so good and during the rainy season it was almost
testing the soil for conformability,” he said. “Talking about impassable. So it makes the cost of transporting the produce
growing tomatoes, we first try it on a small scale under various to the market even higher than even what one may get out of
conditions; with or without manure. That gives us the hint on the produce. So for that reason we have been concentrating
how best we can produce tomatoes and we then can go to large mainly in the local market within the county,” said Tabuley.
scale production after confirming the results. We conducted “We are already seeing a very big problem which is associated

Workers at Porongo Mixed Farm in Kajo-Keji administering routine veterinary services to the goats. [PMF | Courtesy Photo]

most of the trials successfully during that phase and that is why with the road. We have ten acres of bananas which is too
those years we have not been massive,” he added. The poor much for the local market. Not even a quarter of it can be
road linking Kajo-Keji to Juba accounts for the other reason consumed in the local market. So that means it will require a

48 | Gurtong Focus Monthly February 2013