Gezira : a story of development in the Sudan /

By:

Gaitskell, Arthur

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Colonial and comparative studiesPublication details: London : Faber and Faber , c1959.Description: 372 p. :illSubject(s):

DDC classification:

333.7609624 GAI

LOC classification:

HD1741.S85 G54

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	333.7609624 GAI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100136437

Includes bibliography p. 358-368.

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

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