São Paulo – Sudan should increase its cultivated farmland areas and productivity of its crops in coming years and should buy agricultural machinery to supply the demand, according to CTC president, Ahmed Amin Abdellatif. He sees in Brazil one of the main partners for Sudanese companies in the agricultural sector.
CTC operates in several sectors of the economy of Sudan, like the auto industry, hotel sector, real estate management, electronic products and telecommunications, but it is in agriculture that the company does most of its business. One of the CTC activities in the sector is import and retail of agricultural equipment produced in Brazil.
“For around 15 years we had, throughout the country, approximately 15,000 agricultural machines. Now, our demand is for 3,000 new machines each year. Our crop is growing much,” said the CTC president to ANBA at a dinner offered in Khartoum, on Wednesday (17) evening.
Five Brazilian companies and CTC have been showing their products at Khartoum International Fair since the 14th. Their participation in the event is organized in partnership between the Itamaraty and the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. Apart from CTC, the delegation includes NSO Borrachas, construction company Andrade Gutierrez, trading company Montex, hospital equipment producer Fanem and agricultural machinery producer Colombo.
Apart from offering a favourable climate for plantation, according to Abdellatif, the country has invested in crops to export agricultural products. “Now we have separated from South Sudan, the country has started discovering opportunities and we see that we have much potential in the agricultural sector,” he said.
Abdellatif said that Sudan has approximately 100 million hectares available for plantation. Most of the farmland should be covered by cultures that have already shown good results in the country. Among them are sugar, soy, maize and cotton. “This land will need much machinery in coming years, mostly that used for harvesting,” he said.
The president at CTC believes that business should grow as cultural barriers drop, as is the case with speaking a single language.
*Translated by Mark Ament
