Journal Article

Rainfed Agriculture in Damazin Area

Hammad, Al Bashir Ali, Osman, Osama Osman Ali

2012

Overview

Damazin, in Eastern Sudan, is a centre for rainfed agriculture with a cultivable area estimated at 3,000,000 feddans (1,260,000 ha). Both mechanized and traditional manual farming methods are presently adopted in the area. A dominant implement was a seed spreader pulled by a tractor from the models that prevailed during early years of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The combination was found difficult to transport through narrow lanes to small farms scattered in a characteristically mountainous area. Conventional manual farming with traditional hand tools was labour intensive and needs indigenous efforts for improvement through the development and introduction of better tools that combine more than one operation. A hand operated planter developed at the faculty of agricultural technologies of the University of Al Neelain could provide a positive step in that direction. The planter comprised a seed hopper, a metering mechanism with a seed delivery tube, a slot opener, and a seed coverer. The implement was simple to fabricate, to operate and to transport..

• Publisher: جامعة النيلين - إدارة البحوث والتنمية والتطوير
• Subject: الزراعة المطرية / الزراعة في السودان / منطقة الدمازين