Official: Sudan Avoided Famine Thanks to Agricultural Capabilities

The Governor of White Nile State, Omar Khalifa Abdullah, confirmed that the state managed to cultivate large areas with various crops despite the challenges and conditions that faced the summer agricultural season. He added that Sudan did not experience any famine thanks to its agricultural potential. During his inspection visit to the traditional agricultural projects in the Tendelti locality, the governor praised the well-established crops for the summer agricultural season. He called for facilitating fuel permits for all agricultural areas in the state to complete the targeted agricultural areas.

In a related context, the State Minister of Production and Economic Resources, Wissal Al-Sheikh, stated that the agricultural areas cultivated so far have reached more than 2.5 million feddans out of the targeted area for the summer agricultural season, which is more than 3.34 million feddans. The minister expected that the targeted area would be exceeded, noting that the season is free from agricultural pests and that crops were well established thanks to the high rainfall rates across all rain-fed agricultural areas in the state. She praised the significant efforts of traditional sector farmers and their role in cultivating crops that ensure food security.

In the same vein, the Director of Rainfed Agriculture in Tendelti locality, Awad Al-Karim Mohamed Babiker, explained that the targeted area for the traditional agricultural sector is 430,000 feddans, of which 355,000 feddans have been cultivated. In the mechanized agriculture sector, 85% of the targeted area, amounting to 241,000 feddans, has been cultivated. He pointed out that these areas were planted with cereals, sesame, peanuts, in addition to sorghum, roselle, watermelon seeds, and horticultural crops. He added that one of the promising signs of the success of this agricultural season is the absence of agricultural pests, the high rainfall rates, and their good distribution.