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"We Dare where others fear"

By Awan Achiek
The Minister of Finance and Planning Eng. Awow Daniel Chuang on Tuesday revealed that they plan to allocate 10 percent funding to the agriculture sector in the upcoming 2024/25 fiscal year budget.
Chuang disclosed while appearing before lawmakers in Juba, that he will soon table the 2024/25 fiscal budget that will include the increased funding to the agriculture sector.
“For this year, we have already put in our budget 10% for agriculture,” Chuang said.
“This one (agriculture) is already increased, and I am going to see this later brought to the August house,” he added.
Chuang revealed that the budget has already been tabled in the economic cluster last week, adding that this week it will be discussed by the Council of Ministers.
He noted that the agriculture sector has been underfunded in the previous budgets, but this year the funding has been increased in order to stimulate production as the country battles to stabilize food prices.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Josephine Lagu Yanga, told lawmakers that her ministry has been operating over the past four years without capital funds.
The agricultural sector has severely been neglected for several years despite the huge agricultural potential in the country.
The government has over the years been allocating about 1% of the national budget to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.