Sudan: New Halfa Farmers Face 80% Cost Hike

New Halfa, Kassala — Farmers in the New Halfa Agricultural Scheme in Sudan’s Kassala state warn that production costs have surged by 80 per cent compared with last year, and have urged the New Halfa Agricultural Corporation to urgently set a guaranteed procurement price for wheat for the current season amid severe profitability concerns.

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, an activist within the farmers associations, Massoud Abdelrahman Ali Abdelrahman cautioned that delays in announcing the benchmark…