Sucessfully cultivating onions during the dry season
2008 - 2013. Gok Akong village, Rumbek area, Lakes State, South Sudan.
Prolonged dry season.
Vegetable farming within a cooperative of 100 members ; 1200 beneficiairies.
Alluvial soils along a river.
TOTAL Exploration & Production South Sudan was interested in running programmes in this community within the framework of its social responsability programme.
The river is drying up and therefore reducing the possibility of watering the onions planted by the cooperative. The crops are also at risk of drying up.