El-Fashir, August 6(Darfur240 Residents of Tawisha locality in North Darfur state, on Saturday, complained about the scarcity of grains and their high prices in the markets, amid an appeal to the federal authorities to intervene.
Members of the local community who spoke to Darfur 24 said that the locality is witnessing a frightening rise in the prices of food grains, especially millet, where the price of the melon reached 2500 pounds instead of 1500 pounds in the past, an increase of 75 percent.
Some attributed the rise in grain prices to their scarcity and lack of storage, as a result of the failure of the agricultural season last year.
For his part, the Executive Director of Al-Tawisha Locality, Zuhair Al-Tijani Mukhtar, confirmed the increase in food items prices in general.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) had predicted in a report last June that grain prices would rise in the market and warned of a global hunger crisis similar to the Corona pandemic.