Khartoum — Indeed Hassan Mohamed al-Hajj Kadous has the right to be so jubilant during the State celebrations marking the Field Day. Hassan, a farmer from Faris Al-Kitab village Gezira State, has scored the higher rate of production of the upland rice this season; His production was 8 tons per hectare, compared to the world's highest production rate of 10 tons a hectare
The upland rice project is part of the 2010-2016 Capacity Building Project carried out by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the implementation of the Executive Programme for the Agricultural Revival (The later is a national agricultural strategy set by the Sudanese government in 2008 to guarantee food security and promote exports of agricultural products). It is being implemented in collaboration with the federal Ministry of Agriculture and the ministries of agriculture in the states of the Gezira, Sennar, Gedaref, White Nile and River Nile.
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