INPIM participates in the Farmers Workshop Sudan

INPIM particpated in a farmers workshop at Barakat, Sudan, the headquarters of the Gezira Scheme which irrigates 880,000 ha.  The workshop was organised as a part of the consultative process by the World Bank and the Gezira Farmers union.  Sudan is actively considering reforming its Gezira Board by giving a key role to farmers through water user associations.  The Gezira farmers Union which represents 2 million farmers is also playing a key role in the process.  The Government has constituted an Advisory Team under the leadership of Prof. Abdallah to come up with recommendations for the irrigation reforms.  The advisory team has since been working over the past nine months to work out different options which are both prgamatic and implementable.