Failure to spray pesticide on West Kordofan farmlands has negatively affected the past agricultural season, according to Ad Dabab residents.

Farmers and citizens say the state Agricultural Ministry tuned a “blind eye” when they complained pests were destroying their crops.

“Swarms of bird have finished up the sorghum which is the main food that people depend on in the area,” a local source told Radio Tamazuj.

Residents fear a “humanitarian crisis” due to soaring prices of sorghum in the market caused by its shortage.

File photo: Pests eating a sorghum crop in Upper Nile State, October 2013 (Radio Tamazuj)