WAD MEDANI, Sudan (Reuters) - Farmer Abdelbagi Abdallah says his tiny plot of land in Sudan's agricultural heartland bore him a bumper sorghum crop year after year, until pests and patchy irrigation ravaged his harvest.
Barely able to make ends meet on the three sacks of the staple cereal his plot produced this year -- compared to more than 40 sacks in good times -- Abdallah says he was forced to pull his two sons and a daughter out of university.
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