‘North Darfur planting season failing due to grazing livestock, shortages’: farmers

The farmers of Kabkabiya locality in North Darfur have expressed concern of the failure of this year’s planting season due to several factors. One of the farmers explained to Radio Dabanga that although there have been good rains, the current planting season threatens to be a failure as armed herdsmen are grazing camels and cattle in the farms. “They do this by force of arms, beating farmers and threatening them with death if they confront them,” the farmer said. “There is also a lack of improved planting seeds, agricultural machineries and guidance.” He demanded the “the local and state authorities intervene to protect the farmers and their farms from the herders’ attacks”, confirming that the farmers were cultivating land selected for agriculture in the locality. File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid Related: ‘Herdsmen graze livestock on Darfur farms at gunpoint’: farmers (31 July 2013)Concerns of farm failure for displaced in Central Darfur (30 July 2013)