A spokesman for the Governor of the Al Jazeera Project in Sudan, engineer Osman Jasser, said: “The project is facing challenges to secure the necessary funding to grow winter grapes.
According to the Sudanese News Agency, Jasser added that 100,000 acres of wheat were grown, compared to 300,000 acres that were grown at the same time last season.
The governor’s spokesman confirmed that the Gezira project could meet 50% of Sudan’s wheat needs, urging the state to take care of it.
In this regard, Engineer Ghasmallah Khalafallah, spokesman for the Ministry of Irrigation of Sudan, reaffirmed his commitment to the Gezira project and to solving irrigation problems and maintaining facilities to complete the irrigation of all sections of the winter circuit.
In turn, the Department of Agricultural Research emphasized the need to use modern farmland planning methods to ensure a regular flow of irrigation water to achieve the goals.
Khader Al-Amin, director of Fal Micro and Small Finance’s program to finance producers, said the program’s strategy is to promote food security and simplify procedures.
He stressed that the wheat comes from program-funded farmers at an official price announced by the state to prevent the infiltration of middlemen among farmers, announcing rewards for a number of productive and dedicated farmers.
