Sudanese efforts to fill food gap

The Sudanese minister of finance Abdul Rahim Hadi has stressed that the government's estimates of needed requirements to fill the food gap in the countries are complying with the statistics of the world food program.

In a statements to the Sudanese daily al-Rai al-Am issued on Monday, Hamdi explained that the food gap in Sudan does not exceed 300,000 tons of cereals and that his ministry ensured the need by contracting to buy 150,000 until the beginning of the new agricultural season, of which most portions arrived into several Sudanese states which are most affected.

He explained that the country has embarked on policies to distribute food cereals.