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The
Bori farm is located about 30 km outside Kajokeji. It was
just begun with land clearing, finally starting in October
of 2006. Already the compound has been cleared, buildings
built as well as tractor sheds. A probationary manager is
in place, and has been instructed to clear 150 acres for planting.
Two tractors, including an 80 hp, four-wheel drive Massey
Ferguson with both front end loader and a road scraper are
now on site. Another container with a Massey Ferguson 431
will be shipped soon, filled also with equipment such as ploughs,
harrows, cultivators, tools and spare parts.
The land in this area is virgin land, rich with loamy soil,
and will probably produce 8 – 9 times as much per acre
as does the traditional subsistence form of farming. Brigadier
General Zamba Duku (Also Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
of Equatoria State in the Government of Southern
Sudan (GOSS), is Managing Director of Savannah Farmers Cooperative
(SAF), and is personally determined to make Bori a model farm.
His integrity and dedication to the SFC is beyond question.
Progress
by April 2007 is impressive. A brick Guest House has been
finished, with a Dining/Living Room. Building, also brick,
is almost finished. The temporary accommodations for the laborers
will soon be rebuilt as a brick office building. More than
25 acres has been cleared and plowed, and will likely be planted
for the present rainy season starting in May, 2007.
Over a very bad road (like most in southern Sudan) another
2,000 acres is being made available nearby as part of the
Bori SFC farm - (That is, nearby in distance, but not in time)
A full-time clearing crew is now camping on and clearing this
acreage, making ready for ploughing and planting in the next
rainy season in September and onward.
Bori will be the first of the fifty new farms to be established
in the next ten years.
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