Sudan's grain production in 2024-2025 summer season reaches 6.6 mln tons: minister


KHARTOUM, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's grain production has reached 6.6 million tons during 2024-2025 summer season, marking the highest production rate in five years, Abu-Bakr Al-Bushra, Sudanese minister of Agriculture and Forestry, announced on Tuesday.

The figure "is 62 percent higher than last year, and 7 percent higher than the average in the past five years," exceeding Sudan's annual food requirements of 5.5-6 million tons, the minister said at a press conference in Port Sudan.

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