SUDAN is rich with precious metals, diverse plant and animal life, has abundant sunshine, and has the GREAT NILE RIVER running RIGHT through IT!
The possibilities are literally endless, provided some teamwork ensues!!!
Yes, Land resources are plentiful here from what I've discovered.
Sudan is a large desert region in the upper right of the continent of Africa. It's barren and rocky, much like the deserts of Southwest America. However, the Nile River does run RIGHT THROUGH this country. Which is basically the equivalent of the Colorado River in the West and the Mississippi in Central America. It's a huge, fertile, river.
The residents here could dam this natural resource and use it for production, energy, and agriculture. Aside from the places near the river, the landscape is typical Middle Eastern scenery, but, the more rocks, the more precious metals and minerals.
Oil has also been discovered in this region.
Sudanese Land Resources!
SIZE OF SUDAN - 967,500 sq. mi. The largest country in Africa and almost the size of the continental U.S. East of the Mississippi River.
NATURAL RESOURCES - Modest reserves of oil, natural gas, gold, iron ore, copper, and other industrial metals.
AGRICULTURE: Products--cotton, peanuts, sorghum, sesame seeds, gum arabic, sugarcane, millet, livestock. 1.
Land and Resources --- The primary natural resources of Sudan are water, supplied by the Nile River system, and fertile soil. Large areas of cultivable land are situated in the region between the Blue Nile and the ‘Atbarah and between the Blue Nile and the White Nile. Other cultivable land is in the narrow Nile Valley and in the valleys of the plains region. Irrigation is extensively employed in these areas. The country also has vast areas of grasslands and forests, including acacia forests, the source of gum arabic. Small deposits of many different minerals occur, the most important of which are chromium, copper, and iron ore. Petroleum was discovered in western Sudan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 5.
Land and Resources, Plants and Animals --- Vegetation is sparse in the desert zones of Sudan. Various species of acacia occur in the regions contiguous to the Nile Valley. Large forested areas are found in central Sudan, especially in the river valleys. Among the most common trees are the hashab, talh, heglig, and several species of acacia, notably sunt, laot, and kittr. Trees such as ebony, silag, and baobab are common in the Blue Nile Valley. Ebony, mahogany, and other varieties of timber trees are found in the White Nile Basin. Other species of indigenous vegetation include cotton, papyrus, castor-oil plants, and rubber plants.
Animal life is abundant in the plains and equatorial regions of Sudan. Elephants are numerous in the southern forests, and crocodiles and hippopotamuses abound in the rivers. Other large animals include giraffes, leopards, and lions. Monkeys, various species of tropical birds, and poisonous reptiles are also found, and insects—especially mosquitoes, seroot flies, and tsetse flies—infest the equatorial belt. 11.
PETROLEUM --- Sudan has between 5 billion and 6.7 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the fifth largest endowment in Africa. Most of these reserves lie in the Muglad and Melut basins in the south, and production hovers around 480,000 barrels per day. 10.
LAND USE! --- In Sudan, local tensions over land use, ownership, and access are historic sources of griev- ance that can lead to violent conflict unless carefully managed. Historically, development policy has marginalized those communities in the southern, eastern, and western parts of the country.
Regulation of land use has largely been overlooked, and the customary systems for land ownership ignored. This situation has resulted in conflicting and inefficient uses of land, and intensified scarcity.
Land issues are central to understanding the conflict in Darfur, and they provide a common backdrop to smaller-scale conflicts across the country. 10.
Water Facts --- Sudan is a semidesert country, and water is a precious resource. Almost two-thirds of the Nile basin lies within Sudan’s borders, and groundwater reserves are considerable. And yet, most of the population suffers from a shortage of clean drinking water and reliable water sources for agricultural livelihoods.
This scarcity affects the country’s economic stability. The opportunity for water development is enormous. But the current mismanagement of water resources aggravates the imbalance in regional availability of water, and yearly and seasonal fluctuations create uncertainty for many Sudanese communities in sustaining their livelihoods.
Although only 11 percent of the total cultivated land in Sudan is irrigated, this still represents the second largest irrigated area in all Africa, after Egypt.
More than half the country’s total agricultural production derives from this irrigated land, which is crucial to the country’s economic security in the event of drought and unpredictable rainfall. 10.