Details of beneficiaryAgnes Amito Peter is 25 years old, a resident of Omeo Boma of Magwi Payam. She is one of the project beneficiaries for Labour intensive public work who receive money from cycle 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 under the project of ELRP in Magwi County through Global Aim South Sudan with support from FAO. Agnes is a female headed household with five family members 3 female, 2 male and she is a returnee from the camp from Uganda.
Before the support the beneficiary doesn’t have crop seeds, domestic animal at home and can’t pay their children to school, therefore, she was able to get seed to plant during main season through direct distribution and She was able to buy 3 hens at 7,500ssp and one goat at 25,000ssp from the money she receive under the LIPW. After the support she said, she involve in serious farming for all varieties of seeds given to her and tell other farmers to do the same in order to fight hunger at our households. The supports provided today by Global Aim South Sudan with support from FAO create hope to me and the community. I am very optimistic and sure to be able to meet my household requirements without any help from my other family members after harvesting my crops in this second planting season and also have animal at my compound.
The project has brought peace to my family because we did not have money for buying seeds, and the same time no money for meeting my children basic needs such as [. education, heath expense] through the on –farm trainings, I have adopted new skills and this enable me to transfer the knowledge gain to my own individual farm am able to produce more food .l have learnt that it is good to farm to reduce food insecurity at household level in the community .
The project improved my family life by having crops to harvest, consumed some in the house, save some for seeds and will be able to sell some for income. ‘’l think l have become a different person form other project beneficiaries, as l showed them how things can work if you invest in your land’’ she said.
‘l think a livelihood opportunity has reduce my household food insecurity ‘ she said .her hopes in the future is to produce more food that is always a challenge in our community and in the 5-10 years will be able to sell more seeds to farmers and also increase farm scale .
Agnes after the support, she requested for effective extension services to support her farming through training on technical agronomic practices, marketing and business skills so as the seeds given are beneficial to her families and entire community. Additional she requested for storage and preservation facilities for keeping grains after harvest and awareness of farmers against natural disasters to avoid loses of seeds and hunger at households.
I am very thankful to FAO for the support and the opportunity given to us to implement this project of Emergency locust Response project and additional I thank the Staffs of County Agriculture Department, RRC, AAP committees, community leaders and beneficiaries in supporting Global Aim South Sudan staff to accomplish the Payment, distribution of emergency livelihood kits successfully. My comment is that let all aspects of agronomic practices be implemented before and after distribution of seeds and Tools to the farmers in order to realize better harvest at the end of the season and program of feeder road construction should continuous to untargeted areas.
