{"id":184300,"date":"2014-09-30T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/farmers-demand-investigation-of-spoiled-crops-in-central-darfur\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:28:00","slug":"farmers-demand-investigation-of-spoiled-crops-in-central-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/farmers-demand-investigation-of-spoiled-crops-in-central-darfur","title":{"rendered":"Farmers demand investigation of &#8216;spoiled crops&#8217; in Central Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers&nbsp;of Azum locality in&nbsp;Central&nbsp;Darfur state,&nbsp;whose crops were spoiled&nbsp;by pesticides sprayed by&nbsp;the state\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture on their farmlands,&nbsp;demand an investigation into the damage.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday,&nbsp;a committee&nbsp;formed by affected farmers of Wadi Azum handed&nbsp;the Ministry of Agriculture&nbsp;and&nbsp;representatives of&nbsp;Unamid&nbsp;a&nbsp;memorandum in which they reported that \u200b\u200babout&nbsp;1,300 acres&nbsp;planted&nbsp;with&nbsp;sorghum,&nbsp;millet, peanuts, okra, tomatoes, and&nbsp;other crops, have been spoiled by the pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe memorandum&nbsp;called&nbsp;for the formation of a fact-finding&nbsp;committee of officials of the Ministry&nbsp;of Agriculture, organisations, and affected&nbsp;farmers. 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File photo: A woman tending her crops in Darfur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Farmers demand investigation of &#039;spoiled crops&#039; in Central Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/farmers-demand-investigation-of-spoiled-crops-in-central-darfur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farmers demand investigation of &#039;spoiled crops&#039; in Central Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farmers\u00a0of Azum locality in\u00a0Central\u00a0Darfur state,\u00a0whose crops were spoiled\u00a0by pesticides sprayed by\u00a0the state\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture on their farmlands,\u00a0demand an investigation into the damage. 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