Ahmad 
The ongoing conflicts in Sudan for more than a year have had a devastating impact on the agricultural sector, pushing many farmers to abandon their land and leading to serious threats of famine.
United Nations data stated that more than half of the population is currently suffering from critical levels of sudden hunger.
Many farmers were forced to abandon their fields in search of a safe haven as the fighting spread to vital agricultural areas such as Al-Jazira, Sennar, Darfur and Kordofan.
The mass exodus left abandoned fields and led to a significant reduction in cultivated areas, which threatens to put the current agricultural season at risk of collapse.
The Chairman of the Delegated Committee for Farmers, Yasser Ali, pointed out that securing financing represents the biggest challenge facing farmers this year, warning that the failure of the agricultural season will have disastrous repercussions.
In a related context, the Minister of Production in Gedaref State, Omar Bashir, said that the state had allocated 5.5 million acres to grow food security crops, but he stressed that there were difficulties in securing the necessary funding.
In addition, one of the farmers in Gedaref, Al-Amin Abdel-Latif Al-Badawiman, warned that the agricultural season is at risk of failure unless the government takes urgent steps to secure financing and ensure safety for farmers.
It is noteworthy that the decline in cultivated areas in Sudan began before the war, and according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in its report for the year 2022, the areas cultivated with grains in Sudan decreased by 40%, and between 2018 and 2021, more than 13 million people in Sudan are suffering. of food insecurity.
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