Al-Burhan Directs Support for the “Gezira and Managil Scheme”

Khartoum – Sudanhorizon

The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,has affirmed the government commitment to upgrading and developing the Gezira and Managil Scheme, with the goal of restoring its former status and enabling it to contribute to the national economy.

This came during a meeting held today at the Republican Palace with a delegation of farmers and producers from the Gezira and Managil Scheme, in the presence of Lieutenant General Dr. Khalid Abdeen al-Shami, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gezira Scheme.

Al-Sadiq al-Amin Ahmed al-Faki, a member of the scheme’s Board of Directors, stated that the meeting with the Chairman of the Sovereign Council brought promising news for the scheme’s farmers and producers. He noted that the delegation presented several problems and challenges facing the project, and that Lieutenant General al-Burhan pledged to address and resolve them definitively.

Al-Faki explained that the Chairman of the Sovereign Council donated 22 agricultural vehicles to be granted to farmers’ and producers’ associations to assist in clearing the irrigation canals of the Gezira and Managil Scheme. Additionally, he donated 20 vehicles to the Council for the Regulation of Agricultural Production Professions, in support of the plan aimed at revitalizing the scheme and bolstering the national economy.

He also contributed 50 billion Sudanese pounds to support fuel supplies and irrigation pumps.

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