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Kotido Production Officer Warns of Food Deficit

This follows the massive sale of farm proceeds this festive season coupled with the fires that have ravaged harvest in the district lately.
14 Jan 2025 18:20
Robert Kennedy Okuda Kotido district production officer

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Robert Okuda, the Kotido district Production officer is predicting a food deficit by March that might plunge the district into a hunger crisis. 

This follows the massive sale of farm proceeds this festive season coupled with the fires that have ravaged harvest in the district lately. 

According to Okuda though farmers registered a bumper harvest in the 2024 farming season, they were forced to sell part of the harvest to meet their needs during the festive while the little that most of them had secured pushed them through till the next harvest was currently being destroyed by the wild spread fires. 

He adds that apart from the fire, some of the households are using part of the harvests in the production of “ebutia” a local brew to generate household income. 

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Akore John Bosco, the Secretary of Kotido elders council says the predictions are visible with the current migration of locals to neighbouring districts in search of work to get food that would sustain their households during the dry season.

Akore says this has been a common practice where the Karimojong get bumper harvests sell them off cheaply and purchase them expensively after some months.

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Okuda, says that there is a need for the local leadership to commence sensitization for the use of the remaining food sparingly to avert a possible hunger crisis and mapping of families that are badly hit by hunger so that they are supported to avert death as they wait for the rainy season. 

Okuda also advises parents to be vigilant and use the 16 stores spread across the district to store their remaining food so that they are not destroyed by the fires. 

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