Prices of crops have increased at the market as harvest season begins in Boro Medina area in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state.
Musa Shaib, a local farmer in Boro Medina, told Radio Tamazuj that a sack of maize reached from 600 SSP last year to 1,200 South Sudanese pounds currently at the crop market in the area.
Shaib attributed the problem to increasing prices of consumer goods needed by the farmers such as sugar, tea, soap, and other items whose prices skyrocketed due to devaluation of the local currency in South Sudan.
He pointed out that high living conditions prompted them to increase the prices of crops so they could meet family needs.
The farmer described this year’s agricultural season as successful compared to last year. He pointed out that three or four trucks from Wau and Northern Bahr al Ghazal area enter Boro Medina area everyday in order to buy crops.