TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaitskell,Arthur
TI  - Gezira: a story of development in the Sudan 
AV  - HD1741.S85 G54
U1  - 333.7609624 
PY  - 1959///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Agriculture---Development
KW  - Rural lands----Development
KW  - Gezira (Sudan : Region)
N1  - Includes bibliography  p. 358-368
N2  - The Gezira is a triangle of flat land with deep, black soil, between the Blue Nile and the White Nile just south of where these rivers meet at Khartoum. The rainfall is too low and too precarious to grow crops without irrigation-at least, over most of the area. During the period under British control, i.e., up to 1950, the area under irrigation grew to about 1 million acres of which one quarter was producing long-staple cotton. (The irrigated area has been considerably increased under Sudanese
ER  -