{"id":190,"date":"2026-05-25T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:42:17","slug":"iran-war-poses-new-threat-to-harvests-in-hunger-stricken-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Iran war poses new threat to harvests in hunger-stricken Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>OMDURMAN, Sudan, May 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, \u200brestricting food production in a country where war has caused acute hunger.<\/div><div>Eight farmers from different parts of Sudan, as well as experts working in the sector, told Reuters \u200cthat fuel and fertilizer price increases would compound problems caused by a civil war, hitting staple domestic crops such as sorghum and millet as well as exports like sesame.<\/div><div>Sudan is particularly vulnerable to the fallout from the Iran crisis as it relies on the Gulf for more than half of its fertilizer needs, according to U.N. data<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span>, while the war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has left it entirely dependent on fuel imports.<\/div><div>The country is also already at \u200bthe forefront of a looming global food crisis at a time of shrinking aid budgets. About 19.5 million people, more than 40% of the population, are facing crisis levels of hunger, with some \u200bareas at risk of famine, according to a U.N.-backed monitor.<\/div><div>Sudan&#8217;s agricultural potential has drawn interest from Gulf investors but the sector has been hampered by decades \u2060of mismanagement and war. About two-thirds of the population depend on farming for their livelihoods.<\/div><div>The regional war has added &#8220;salt to the wound,&#8221; said Sadig Elamin, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization&#8217;s senior food security \u200banalyst in Sudan, warning that overall production could fall by &#8220;not less than 40%.&#8221;<\/div><div>A sustained shock risks worsening hunger &#8220;well beyond the current food crisis,&#8221; the U.N.&#8217;s humanitarian office said this month.<\/div><h2>WAR PRICES<\/h2><div>After more than three years \u200bof war in Sudan, the army has control of central and eastern regions, while the RSF has solidified its control of Darfur in the west. The two sides are fighting over the vast Kordofan region that lies between, crucial to agriculture.<\/div><div>For farmers in southern Omdurman\u2019s Jamuia scheme, this planting season should have been promising, after the RSF, blamed for damaging irrigation ditches and water pumps, was driven from the area adjoining the capital Khartoum a year ago.<\/div><div>Now, however, farmers face \u200bfertilizer prices up 67% year-on-year and prices for fuel &#8211; including diesel used in irrigation pumps &#8211; have more than doubled, according to national surveys.<\/div><div>\u201cAt that price we don\u2019t make a profit, you spend your whole profit \u200bon the diesel,\u201d said one farmer, Bashir Ismail.<\/div><div>Only 500 out of a total of 10,000 feddans (4,200 hectares) have been planted about halfway into the planting season, said Omar al-Ebeid, secretary for the scheme\u2019s farmers&#8217; committee.<\/div><h2>LACK OF SUPPORT<\/h2><div>Meanwhile, farmers \u200ccomplain that the \u2060army-aligned government, with its budget diminished in favour of the war effort, hasn\u2019t helped them.<\/div><div>\u201cThe RSF left in February of last year. Nothing has been fixed since then,\u201d said Mohamed Balla, head of a farmers&#8217; collective in the Gezira scheme, which produced around half the country\u2019s sorghum and wheat before the country\u2019s war.<\/div><div>As fuel and fertilizer prices have shot up, prices for harvested crops have stayed stagnant.<\/div><div>National cereal production, which had already dropped by a quarter from the pre-war average, according to the FAO, could fall further.<\/div><div>\u201cTwo sacks of wheat buy you one sack of urea. So we won\u2019t grow it again,\u201d Balla said.<\/div><div>Sudan\u2019s state-backed Agricultural \u200bBank is supposed to help finance farmers but has \u200bbeen affected by the conflict like the \u2060rest of the financial sector. It has priced agricultural inputs too high and products too low, Balla and others say, driving farmers into debt.<\/div><div>The bank&#8217;s head told Reuters it would work to &#8220;alleviate the burden&#8221; on Sudanese farmers by providing inputs on better terms over longer periods.<\/div><div>The Agriculture Ministry&#8217;s director for agricultural production, Fatma \u200bYousif, said the ministry had agreed with the bank to create a new fund to finance as much as possible.<\/div><div>The ministry was looking into how \u200bto support farmers on fuel \u2060costs and was working on rehabilitating irrigation canals, having fixed pumps in several locations, she told Reuters.<\/div><h2>MACHINERY LOOTED<\/h2><div>In Kordofan and Darfur, continued lawlessness is threatening the production of sesame, peanuts, gum arabic, and millet.<\/div><div>\u201cThere is no funding for farmers, no machinery for planting and ploughing the land, and no security because the RSF and other gangs loot the crops and demand money at every checkpoint,\u201d said Mohamed Adam, a farmer displaced from West Kordofan \u2060state to army-controlled \u200bEl Obeid in North Kordofan.<\/div><div>An RSF spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. The group has previously denied \u200btargeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.<\/div><div>Three farmers from the area told Reuters that tractors were looted in raids and farmhands recruited to fight, while entire communities had been displaced, meaning very little land has been prepared in rain-fed fields for the upcoming season.<\/div><div>Khalid Abdellatif, \u200bdirector at CTC Group, one of the country\u2019s largest agricultural suppliers, said sending supplies into the regions was expensive and risky, and small-scale subsistence farmers in particular were struggling.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Nafisa Eltahir\" class=\"wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/63c7e6072be12ba097c8fbac6b3c3ea7.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Nafisa Eltahir<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Instagram<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Linkedin<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=187\">Uganda confirms two more Ebola cases, taking total to seven<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=185\">Anthropic\u2019s Olah says AI must be guided from outside Big Tech<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=183\">Former SNP chief pleads guilty to embezzling $540,000<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, \u200brestricting food production in a country where war has caused acute hunger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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