Editorial :Gold or Gum Arabic
According to Gum Arabic Council Secretary-General, Dr. Abdul Magid Abdul Gadir, Sudan benefits only by about 8 percent from the Gum Arabic great potentials out of more than 500 thousand kilometers.
He subjected that to the lack of manpower as labours prefer to go to traditional mining sites than working in Gum Arabic sector besides the poor funding to the producers.
The above negative prescription could be applied also in all the agricultural products.
However, the lack of manpower and the abandonment of agriculture in favour of traditions mining besides the lack of funding deserve serious consideration.
The First Vice President, who is the Chairman of the Agriculture Renaissance Programme, has directed giving top priority to funding the agricultural sector considering that the government should concentrate in agriculture to fill the gap between the national income resulted from the reduction of oil revenue after South Sudan secession.
Manpower abandonment of agriculture in favour of traditional mining is natural because the revenues of agriculture are lower and more tiring.
Notwithstanding the importance of gold production and its considerable contribution in national income, but still it is not the appropriate replacement for agriculture.
Accordingly, there must be balance in directing the agricultural production which is a sustainable and continuous and at the same time not to depend on minerals which attracted both the skilled and unskilled manpower who are dreaming to become rich in a very short time.
It goes without saying that agriculture is the actual wealth of Sudan; hence it must be given the desired concern from the Presidency.
We propose establishing a consultancy committee of agricultural experts to be attached directly to the Presidency, to work out short-term and long-term plans to upgrade this sector.
The proposed committee recommendations will definitely lead to achieve the agriculture renaissance programme if it is applied under the direct supervision of the Presidency.
Any considerable improvement in the agricultural sector will re-attract those who are working in the traditional mining sites to return to their farms, considering that they wok in the traditional mining depends only on luck which could not be there, unlike the agriculture which, if is given the deserved concern, will make us on top of the world with our vast arable lands.
He subjected that to the lack of manpower as labours prefer to go to traditional mining sites than working in Gum Arabic sector besides the poor funding to the producers.
The above negative prescription could be applied also in all the agricultural products.
However, the lack of manpower and the abandonment of agriculture in favour of traditions mining besides the lack of funding deserve serious consideration.
The First Vice President, who is the Chairman of the Agriculture Renaissance Programme, has directed giving top priority to funding the agricultural sector considering that the government should concentrate in agriculture to fill the gap between the national income resulted from the reduction of oil revenue after South Sudan secession.
Manpower abandonment of agriculture in favour of traditional mining is natural because the revenues of agriculture are lower and more tiring.
Notwithstanding the importance of gold production and its considerable contribution in national income, but still it is not the appropriate replacement for agriculture.
Accordingly, there must be balance in directing the agricultural production which is a sustainable and continuous and at the same time not to depend on minerals which attracted both the skilled and unskilled manpower who are dreaming to become rich in a very short time.
It goes without saying that agriculture is the actual wealth of Sudan; hence it must be given the desired concern from the Presidency.
We propose establishing a consultancy committee of agricultural experts to be attached directly to the Presidency, to work out short-term and long-term plans to upgrade this sector.
The proposed committee recommendations will definitely lead to achieve the agriculture renaissance programme if it is applied under the direct supervision of the Presidency.
Any considerable improvement in the agricultural sector will re-attract those who are working in the traditional mining sites to return to their farms, considering that they wok in the traditional mining depends only on luck which could not be there, unlike the agriculture which, if is given the deserved concern, will make us on top of the world with our vast arable lands.
By Sudan Vision, 12/06/2013
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