August 4, 2024 (PORT SUDAN) – Sudan’s agriculture minister on Sunday ordered modern irrigation companies to dedicate 10% of their land to sorghum production, seeking to address a growing food ...

Delays have also been reported in bigger, irrigated commercial farms that produce exports as well as sorghum and millet, said Adam Yao, Sudan spokesman for the U.N. Food and Agriculture ...

Sudan's central bank has lifted an effective ban on sorghum exports saying it wants to support the price of the commodity after a bumper harvest, officials said on Thursday.

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

Gedaref state, a key producer of sorghum, has been relatively unaffected by direct conflict and is relatively accessible for humanitarian actors. Whilst at the end of July, vegetation levels were ...

Sudan's diverse crops and agricultural heritage are at risk of being lost. ... Seeds sent for safekeeping include those of sorghum, pearl millet, maize, cowpea, pigeon pea, and faba bean.

Evidence for Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Eastern Sudan: Spikelet Morphology from Ceramic Impressions of the Butana Group. Current Anthropology , 2017; 000 DOI: 10.1086/693898 ...

Sorghum is widely cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions covering an area of 44 million ha, with production estimates of 62.5 million tonnes. Major sorghum producing countries include Australia, ...