الأبعاد الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية لمشروع أم عجاج الزراعي بولاية شرق دارفور : دراسة تحليلية

Abstract EN

The rain-fed sector is one of the basic components of the agricultural sector in Sudan as it actively contributes to supporting the agricultural sector which is the mainstay of the Sudanese economic ,so the states interest came in establishing the Um Ajaj agricultural project in the year 1973, and thus the objectives of the study were in order to provide food for the states of Darfur and reclamation of development projects with goals Federal state and local in addition to the Gazzala Jawazzet project for animal husbandry and pasture improvement and the Westren Savanna development research project, however these projects have gone through circumstances that have made them lose their usefulness if they have not come to them, as comes the important of the study, including the above objectives, because the states suffer from food shortage crises since the dawn of independence to the present day, and the reasons for that are the nature of shifting cultivation overgrazing, unjust cutting of the forest system lack of suitable rain, erosion factors and desertification, in addition to the security problems that the region suffered from recently and despite that, it is rich in its natural resources ,where the land that it can be reclaimed and benefited from by manpower, in the year 1974 the Mechanized agriculture corporation undertook studies financing and resettlement and since this institution is responsible for all irrigated and rain-fed projects in Sudan, and its management is centralized , but this project did not have an independent budget, but the support and financing for this project comes from budget savings,this is the reason for the imbalance in the completion of the infrastructure of the project and the most important results summarized by the researcher in this study were that the dependence of the project on the ministry of agriculture in the state of South Darfur at that time was twice as weak,to which the project is based, and it has limited income, limited capabilities, and dose not have funding, not to mention a huge project that needs billions of pounds, such as the Umm Ajaj agriculture project, so the researchers recommendation was to rehabilitate such giant projects and bring them back to life in a better way than they were, by providing support for them as soon as possible