East Darfur requests sorghum from Sudan’s strategic reserves

05/03/2016 21:05 KHARTOUM

Members of the East Darfur parliament have demanded the Sudanese Strategic Reserve Department provide the state with sorghum to combat the rising price of the basic commodity.
The head of the Federal Parliament’s Agricultural Committee told reporters in Khartoum on Thursday that he met with a delegation of MPs from East Darfur. They complained about soaring sorghum prices and an acute shortage of fodder as a result of the late and poor rainfall last year.
They demanded the Strategic Reserve Department provide East Darfur with extra sorghum so as to create price stability.

Members of the East Darfur parliament have demanded the Sudanese Strategic Reserve Department provide the state with sorghum to combat the rising price of the basic commodity.

The head of the Federal Parliament’s Agricultural Committee told reporters in Khartoum on Thursday that he met with a delegation of MPs from East Darfur. They complained about soaring sorghum prices and an acute shortage of fodder as a result of the late and poor rainfall last year.

They demanded the Strategic Reserve Department provide East Darfur with extra sorghum so as to create price stability.

Because of the drier-than-normal conditions in the southern part of Sudan during the rainy season last year, deterioration of the already unstable food security situation is expected and could affect up to 4.2 million people in 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) saId in its latest report on El Niño.