{"id":430424,"date":"2011-05-26T02:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/26\/un-managed-irrigation-project-boosts-communitys-crop-production\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T02:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:54:44","slug":"un-managed-irrigation-project-boosts-communitys-crop-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/un-managed-irrigation-project-boosts-communitys-crop-production\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-Managed Irrigation Project Boosts Community?s Crop Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"33.87545676\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>UN News (New\u00a0York)<\/p>\n<p>24 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Irrigation equipment provided through an initiative managed by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) has enabled more than 1,000 farmers in north-eastern Sudan to increase harvests and boost incomes from the sale of their produce.<\/p>\n<p>The rural community in Arabaat, 30 kilometres west of Port Sudan, which has traditionally relied on rain-fed subsistence farming, has benefited from generators and pumps delivered through the Sudan Recovery and Rehabilitation Programme, enabling them to draw groundwater to cultivate vegetables and other crops year round, UNDP said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The $72-million project is managed by UNDP on behalf of the Government of National Unity and the Government of Southern Sudan and funded by the European Commission and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big difference now,\u201d said Aisha Sharief, who heads one of the Arabaat farms. \u201cNowadays we have permanent irrigation and alternate crops like sorghum and vegetables.\u201d She also grows tomatoes, okra and arugula.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein Musa, who is in charge of getting the farmers\u2019 produce to the market, said: \u201cIn the past some people used wells run by merchants who took 50 per cent in profits and farmers earned little. Now each farm has a well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have also participated in management training and formed the Arabaat Development Association, which has enabled them to pool resources and run other development projects, such as water systems and fisheries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously women were not represented in leadership but now they are part of the way we do business,\u201d said Ms. Sharief.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105260249.html\" title=\"UN-Managed Irrigation Project Boosts Community?s Crop Production\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN-Managed Irrigation Project Boosts Community?s Crop Production<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> UN News (New\u00a0York) 24 May 2011 Irrigation equipment provided through an initiative managed by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) has enabled more than 1,000 farmers in north-eastern Sudan to increase harvests and boost incomes from the sale of their produce. The rural community in Arabaat, 30 kilometres west of Port Sudan, which has traditionally relied on rain-fed subsistence farming, has benefited from generators and pumps delivered through the Sudan Recovery and Rehabilitation Programme, enabling them to draw groundwater to cultivate vegetables and other crops year round, UNDP said yesterday. The $72-million project is managed by UNDP on behalf of the Government of National Unity and the Government of Southern Sudan and funded by the European Commission and Norway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-430424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN-Managed Irrigation Project Boosts Community?s Crop Production - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/un-managed-irrigation-project-boosts-communitys-crop-production\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"UN-Managed Irrigation Project Boosts Community?s Crop Production - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"UN News (New\u00a0York) 24 May 2011 Irrigation equipment provided through an initiative managed by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) has enabled more than 1,000 farmers in north-eastern Sudan to increase harvests and boost incomes from the sale of their produce. 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