We have stated that we will be honest in our reporting, thus this next paragraph.

Logobero, about 15 km outside Yei, was the first farm to be established. It has been troubled by corruption. The Board of Directors of the Savannah Farmers Cooperative Company (SFC) found it necessary to dismiss all the management and staff, invoking their zero-tolerance policy for corruption.

It is now managed by Rev. George A. K. Taban who holds a certificate in Agriculture. Two Canadian farmers have spent several months each on this farm in 2006 to train the Sudanese staff in proper maintenance and use of the tractors as well as modern methods of plowing, harrowing, machine planting and cultivating.

A vastly increased crop has been reported for this recently past growing season. This farm has a potential of thousands of acres for expansion and mass food production. The soil is rich, producing well in every kind of crop which has been planted. It should be self-sustaining by the end of 2007.

The Executive Committee of the Savannah Farmers Cooperative has recently accepted an offer of another 2,000 acres made by the local Chiefs and clans, with government approval.

The land on which all the farms are located has been acquired through an ‘endless lease’ at no cost to the SFC for as long as food is being produced. The land always does, and always will belong to the people and can only be used by written agreement with the tribal landlords. Since beginning the first farms, their success has led to many invitations to start farms in other areas, even outside Sudan where their success has been noted.