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Traditional Rain-fed Agriculture
The area traditionally cultivated is estimated at 9 million ha mostly in Western and southern Sudan and in certain areas of cenral Sudan. It is practiced by rural people at small-scale level (10-50feddans). According to the soil type it can be divided in to two types of land use.
On clay soils people concentrate mainly on sorghum and seasame and they use the plough in land preparation operation.
While on the sandy soil the farmers grow millet, groundnut, kerkadi and watermelon.
Because of the fragile nature of the sandy soils people practice a kind of shifting cultivation. Due to the steady increase in the rural population bush/fallow cycle collapsed and yield has shown serious drops especially for millet.
The main constrains confronting this sector can be counted as follows:
1. Traditional based agriculture on the domains of knowledge and practices.
2. Risk –born agriculture due to fluctuations of rainfall in different season.
3. Lack of metrological knowledge among rural farmers.
4. Lack of water harvest and spread technology in the marginal areas e.g. N. Kordofan &Darfur.
