Bio and Co. after winning the Presidential run-off election, they were telling food commodity importers to quickly sell their food stuffs especially rice in store because Government is about to bring in ships of clean rice within three months period to be sold at a reduced price for the benefit of the less privileged. But citizens are worried due to the fact that basic food commodity is skyrocketing by the minute at a time the new Government about to reaches hundred days (100) – (that is three months) in office.
A senior Agriculturist who preferred to be anonymous argued that no country in the world can feed its people when Government pays less attention to improving local farming activities but rather depends on imported food stuff.
Various households have expressed fear that the 2018 Global Hunger Index may going to rank Sierra Leone as the first highest hungry nation in West Africa when a bag of rice now costs over Le 275,000.00.
Sierra Leone is still underfed or starved because indigenous farmers are still using crude tools like hoe, cutlass, knife among others to perform farming activities because they could not afford to hire modern equipment like tractor, harrower, plough, hatchery, incubator etc., to exercise commercial agriculture. As a result, local farmers have no option but to revert on subsistence farming.
Another school of thought is arguing that food security cannot be achieved in office without concerned authorities focusing on improving the lives of rural farmers who are doing the practical aspect of food production.
It is unlawful for a small country like Sierra Leone to be stricken with acute hunger because we have fertile lands where crops cannot only perform well but animals can also survive effectively.
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Sierra Leone and the World 