{"id":227363,"date":"2026-03-19T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-new-halfa-farmers-face-80-cost-hike\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:56:06","slug":"sudan-new-halfa-farmers-face-80-cost-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-new-halfa-farmers-face-80-cost-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: New Halfa Farmers Face 80% Cost Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">New Halfa, Kassala \u2014 Farmers in the New Halfa Agricultural Scheme in Sudan&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking to Radio Dabanga, an activist within the farmers associations, Massoud Abdelrahman Ali Abdelrahman cautioned that delays in announcing the benchmark&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Halfa, Kassala \u2014 Farmers in the New Halfa Agricultural Scheme in Sudan&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6629,7127,3030,45566,10730,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-227363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-face","tag-farmers","tag-halfa","tag-hike","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}