Turkish wheat seeds fail to grow in Sudan’s El Gezira
Seeds imported from Turkey failed to germinate in El Gezira state. The Farmers’ Corporation in El Gezira Northern Section want criminal investigations. This year the farmers were supplied with new seeds originating from Turkey, but the harvest failed completely.“The seeds failed to germinate and to sprout”, the farmers’ angry spokesman Ibrahim Mujahidin said on Monday. He described the case as a ‘big crime’. A farmer from El Gezira said he started sowing 27 feddaan of wheat, but he stopped as the seeds did not germinate at all, he told El Arabiya TV channel.The deputy minister of Agriculture for El Gezira state, Mohamed Hassan Jubara, promised to start immediately with investigations into the case of ‘false seeds’. The investigation committee will include experts and will present the results within three days. (Source El Ayaam)File photo
Seeds imported from Turkey failed to germinate in El Gezira state. The Farmers’ Corporation in El Gezira Northern Section want criminal investigations. This year the farmers were supplied with new seeds originating from Turkey, but the harvest failed completely.
“The seeds failed to germinate and to sprout”, the farmers’ angry spokesman Ibrahim Mujahidin said on Monday. He described the case as a ‘big crime’. A farmer from El Gezira said he started sowing 27 feddaan of wheat, but he stopped as the seeds did not germinate at all, he told El Arabiya TV channel.
The deputy minister of Agriculture for El Gezira state, Mohamed Hassan Jubara, promised to start immediately with investigations into the case of ‘false seeds’. The investigation committee will include experts and will present the results within three days. (Source El Ayaam)
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