KHARTOUM- Sudan has raised domestic wheat prices to 13,500 Sudanese pounds ($36) per 100 kg sack, up from 10,000 pounds, as the harvesting season starts, the prime minister's office said on Sunday.
"What governs us in wheat pricing policy is that the price is not only fair but that it stimulates production, so that's why we raised the purchase price," Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Twitter after inaugurating the harvest at the state-run Gezira farming project.
The estimated total area planted with wheat nationally in Sudan is 800,000 feddans (830,000 acres).
The country consumes about 1.9 million tonnes of wheat annually and produces 700,000 tonnes domestically, a senior official told Reuters last month.
Sudan underwent a sharp currency devaluation in February.
The country has seen frequent shortages of subsidised bread during a protracted economic crisis that triggered mass protests against former president Omar al-Bashir and continued after his overthrow in 2019.
(Reporting by Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz Writing by Aidan Lewis Editing by David Goodman and Elaine Hardcastle) ((Aidan.Lewis@tr.com; +20-1001174410;))
