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Farmers in the El Gezira and El Managil region, located between the Blue and White Niles south of Khartoum, stated that high production costs and taxes threatened the current agricultural season.
On Monday, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning issued a new decision, determining new fees for irrigation water services in national projects. The irrigation fees for 2022-2023 for the El Gezira Agricultural Scheme are set on SDG6,000 per feddan (4,200 square metres), and SDG8,000 for the El Rahad Agricultural Project in North Kordofan and the El Souki Agricultural Project in Sennar. Farmers at the New Halfa Agricultural Project in Kassala will pay SDG4,500 per feddan.
Sudan’s Minister of Finance and head of the Justice and Equality Movement, Jibril Ibrahim, declared the government’s official position in buying wheat crops from farmers at a price of SDG43,000 per 100kg sack.
The alliance of farmers in El Gezira and El Managil forewarned authorities of the winter harvest failure, owing to the unjustified increase in agricultural fees, neglect of cleaning canals, lack of production inputs and, potential failure to fertilise the crops in time.