Khartoum - (SUNA) The Director of Plants Protection Administration at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Khidir Jibril, has announced the start of a large campaign for combating watermelon bugs for the first time in Sudan, adding that the campaign will include Darfur, Kordofan and the White Nile States.
He stated to SUNA that the campaign is progressing well thanks to the support of extended by the state to the protection and solving the problem of pesticides.
The campaign is funded by 25 million dollars from the Central Bank of Sudan and the Ministry of Finance with 33 million Sudanese pounds, appreciating intervention of the President of the Republic to solve the funding problem.