Sudan’s farmers warn of failing harvests amid hunger
09 June 2022 |
2:04 pm
On the fertile clay plains of Sudan's Gezira Scheme, farmers would have normally started tilling the soil weeks ago and planting cash crops. Instead, swathes of the 3,400-square-mile agricultural project remain untouched.
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