Background on Dairy and Poultry Production in South Sudan
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South Sudan is endowed with variable soils and rainfall, ranging from 500mm to1500mm per year. The high rainfall areas, which are characterized by rainforest, arefound in western Equatoria at the borders of Uganda and Congo. Part of this high rainfallarea is found in western Bahr el Ghazal in the district of Raja.The dominant grasses in this high rainfall area besides the thick forest are the speargrasses, penisetum perpereum, pennicum maximum and hyperhenia species. Somespecies such as setaria and cloris gayana are found too. These areas are mainlyagricultural with few communities keeping cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry.