South Sudan: South Sudan Seeks Unlikely Economic Salvation with Farming

Feb 16, 2017 | Okech Francis, Bloomberg
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South Sudan, ravaged by three years of conflict and impending famine, said it’s seeking investors for agricultural land in a bid to offset a fall in oil revenue that’s spurred an economic crisis. The government is assigning more than 50,000 feddans (about 51,900 acres) in each of the East African country’s 32 states for investors to grow crops that are in demand in local and export markets, acting Agriculture Minister Kornelio Kon Ngu said in an interview. Selling cash crops such as sesame, sunflower seeds and corn as well as regulating exports of gum Arabic and honey could bring in foreign currency, he said.