Sudan: In an Unusual Turn, Farmer Successfully Grows Wheat in Summer

Khartoum — Wheat is basically a crop of temperate zones. It flourishes best in cold weather. And when it is tried to be grown in tropical zones, it is usually cultivated in the cold winter weather.

But farmer Abdelfattah Mohammad Alsakhi has proved wheat can grow in the hot summer months of Northern Sudan, part of the arid Sahara desert. He has even achieved an output of 22 tons of the crop per acre.

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