Sudanese farmers warn of failing harvests as hunger rises
Farmer sow seeds using a tractor. Swathes of fertile land in Sudan have not been tilled as farmers say they do not have the money to fund new crop. PHOTO | FILE
On the fertile clay plains of Sudan's Gezira Scheme, farmers would have normally started tilling the soil weeks ago before planting out rows of sorghum, or peanuts, sesame and other cash crops.
Instead, in a country stalked by sharply rising hunger, swathes of the 8,800 square km (3,400 square mile) agricultural project lie untouched.
