1. AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES
بســـم الله الرحمـن الرحـيم
Establishing of Database and Network Connection of Smallholders/ Family Farmers Agricultural Cooperatives Between COMCEC Member Countries
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES
IN SUDAN
Dr. Mohamed Saad Ali
Farmers Organization Coordinator
Ministry of Agriculture
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2. WELCOME

3. OUTLINE I.INTRODUCTION AGRICULTURE SECTOR
CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL SCALE FARMERS IN SUDAN
CONSTRAINTS OF SMALL SCALE FARMER IN SUDAN
NATIONAL PRIORITIES FOR SMALLHOLDERS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCERS ORGANIZATION IN SUDAN
CHALLENGES
CONCLUSION

4. INTRODUCTION Sudan positioned to the North-Eastern corner of Africa
Total Area: 1,861,484 sq. KM
Rank: 16th
Population: 37 million.
Arable land about 34%

5. AGRICULTURE SECTOR It contribute about 30% of GDP
It is the principal source of income and livelihood for between 60 per cent and 80 % of the population.
The engine of growth for other economic sectors such as trade, industry and transport
Export crops: Cotton, Sesame, Arabic gum & Livestock

6. FOUR MAIN TYPES OF FARMING EXIST IN SUDAN
Mechanized rain-fed agricultural schemes
Traditional rain-fed agriculture
Irrigated Agriculture
Livestock husbandry/pastoralism

7. 1. MECHANIZED RAIN FED AGRICULTURE
With sorghum as a principle crop in addition to sesame and small amount of short fiber cotton

8. 2. TRADITIONAL RAIN FED AGRICULTURE
With millet, sesame, groundnut and Roselle as major crops.

9. 3.Irrigated Agriculture
The main crops grown are Sugar Cane, Cotton, Wheat, Sorghum, Groundnut, Fruits And Vegetables
Pivate irrigation
Conventional tillage

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL SCALE FARMERS IN SUDAN
The farm often less than 2 hectares
Low productivity & income
Low capital
Substance farming

11. CONSTRAINTS OF SMALL SCALE FARMER IN SUDAN
1. Land ownership • Fragmented farm holdings; • Ownership by local customary laws and norms, rather than legally recognized; 2. Access to technology • Use of simple manual tools and family labor in farm practices; • Scarcity of modern agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, and improved seeds

12. Continued
3. Access to services • Weak institutional agricultural services including research, extension, pest and disease control; • Weak organizational structures dealing with traditional agricultural production; 4. Funding sources • Dependence on traditional sources of finance such as relatives and village merchant 4.low productivity and weak marketing services

13. (THE USE OF FERTILIZERS (KG / HA

14. NATIONAL PRIORITIES FOR SMALLHOLDERS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
1. Institutional, policy planning and legal framework capacity strengthened • Functional capacity for agriculture, food security and Natural Resource Management (NRM) policy and planning; • Legal reform; • Improvement of valid and reliable sector co-ordination; • Enhanced and sustained information management systems at federal, state, locality and community levels. 2. Agricultural research and technology transfer institutions • Provide support services to farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk and tree-dependent people according to international best practice

15. Continued
3. Productivity and production of cropping, livestock, fisheries and forestry systems significantly increased • Cost of production reduced and competitiveness of products improved; • Effects of climate change and variability and associated extreme weather events on smallholder producers negated; • Livelihoods of smallholder growers, pastoralists, fisher folk and tree-dependent people enhanced.

16. PRODUCERS ORGANIZATION IN SUDAN
Cooperatives Societies (50 members)
Producer Organization (7 members)

17. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER ORGANIZATION'S LEGAL BASIS
Cooperatives Act 1948
Owners Producer Of Plant And Livestock Organizations Act 2011

18. THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF PRODUCER ORGANIZATION
Ministry of Foreign Trade – cooperation department - federal level.
Ministry of Agriculture & Forests – technology transfer & extension – producer organization coordination - federal level.
Ministry of judges - federal level.
Ministry of Finance and Economy - cooperation department - state level

19. COOPERATIVE SECTOR IN SUDAN
Cooperative legislation began since 1948
There are more than 3.5 million people are members of cooperatives sector representing 10.2 percent of the population
More than 10,000 cooperative societies
Agriculture cooperatives are estimated around 33 % of the total number of cooperatives
Consumer cooperatives are estimated around 11 % of the total number of cooperatives
cooperative and training center was established since 1976.

20. COOPERATIVE TYPES IN SUDAN

21. AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE IN SUDAN
Agriculture cooperatives are more than 3333 cooperative societies
There are many types of Agriculture cooperatives such as;
Credit associations,
Mechanical harvesting cooperative
Graduates cooperative
Dairy cooperative societies
Fishery and;
Milk

22. EXAMPLES OF BEST PRACTICES
Goz alhalag cooperative
Koko cooperative
General Union Of Producers Cooperative Qualitative Natural Glues

23. CHALLENGES
Lack of confidence in the cooperative idea and cooperative organizations among people
Imbalance of organizational structures and administrative
Absence of any statistical systems or databases
Poor training and education cooperative activities
Weakness of productivity and control bureaucracy ,corruption and giving priority to individual interests to the public good, and
Liberation policy

24. Conclusions

25. Thank You