Challenges faced in Agricultural Sector of South Sudan

  • Poor and inadequate infrastructure. Lack of developed trunk and feeder roads (and, other types of infrastructure – railway/rolling stock, electricity and transport systems as well as ICT) inhibit movement of goods and services into and out of rural areas, increases the cost of transportation and dampen producers’ incentives to generate surplus.
  • Unclear land tenure and demarcation.
  • Shortage of farm labor.
  • Weak farmer/producer organizations.
  • Paucity of microfinance facilities. Formal banking services are still extremely limited
  • Weak markets and non-existent market information systems.
  • Lack of agricultural productivity-enhancing technologies.
  • There is little use of improved varieties of seed or breeds of livestock.
  • Weak or non-existent capacity to provide farm and off -farm extension services to farmers
  • Weak entrepreneurship base and absence of commercial farming.