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Agriculture in Sudan, the Glossary

Agriculture in Sudan plays an important role in that country's economy.^[1]

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Economy of Sudan

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Al Gadaref District

Al Gadaref is a district of Al Qadarif state, Sudan.

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Al Qadarif State

Al Qadarif, also spelt Gedaref or Gadarif, is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan.

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Alkali

In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.

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Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia, as opposed to more widespread cereals such as corn, rice and modern varieties of wheat, which are the product of thousands of years of selective breeding.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Atbarah River

The Atbarah River (نهر عطبرة; transliterated: Nahr 'Atbarah), also referred to as the Red Nile and / or Black Nile, is a river in northeast Africa.

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Baggara Arabs

The Baggāra (translit "heifer herder") or Chadian Arabs are a nomadic confederation of people of mixed Arab and Arabized indigenous African ancestry, inhabiting a portion of the Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and the Nile river near south Kordofan, numbering over six million.

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Bahr al-Arab

The Bahr al-Arab (بحر العرب) or Kiir River (Dinka) is a river which flows approximately through the southwest of Sudan and marks part of its international border with South Sudan.

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Bahr el Ghazal (region of South Sudan)

The Bahr el Ghazal is a region of northwestern South Sudan.

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Banana

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Barka River

The Barka River (nahr Baraka) is a tributary river that flows from the Eritrean Highlands to the plains of Sudan.

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Beekeeping

Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives.

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Bir Tawil

italic (lit) is a area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country.

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Blue Nile

The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

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Blue Nile State

Blue Nile State (ولاية النيل الأزرق) is one of the eighteen states of the Republic of the Sudan.

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Bride price

Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.

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Bull

A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus (cattle).

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Butana

The Butana (Arabic: البطانة, Buṭāna), historically called the Island of Meroë, is the region between the Atbara and the Nile in the Sudan.

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Camel

A camel (from camelus and κάμηλος from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.

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Cash crop

A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Collateralized debt obligation

A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is a type of structured asset-backed security (ABS).

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Constitution of Sudan

The temporary de facto Constitution of Sudan is the Draft Constitutional Declaration, which was signed by representatives of the Transitional Military Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance on 4 August 2019.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Crop residue

Crop residues are waste materials generated by agriculture.

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Cucumber

The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.

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Customary law

A legal custom is the established pattern of behavior within a particular social setting.

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Darfur

Darfur (Fur) is a region of western Sudan.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Desert

A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.

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Desertification

Desertification is a type of gradual land degradation of fertile land into arid desert due to a combination of natural processes and human activities.

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Diet food

Diet food (or dietetic food) refers to any food or beverage whose recipe is altered to reduce fat, carbohydrates, and/or sugar in order to make it part of a weight loss program or diet. Such foods are usually intended to assist in weight loss or a change in body type, although bodybuilding supplements are designed to increase weight.

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Donkey

The donkey or ass is a domesticated equine.

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Drought

A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.

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East Africa

East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.

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Economy

An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services.

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Equatoria

Equatoria is the southernmost region of South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the White Nile and the border between South Sudan and Uganda.

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Eritrea

Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.

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Ethiopian Highlands

The Ethiopian Highlands (also called the Abyssinian Highlands) is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa.

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Excipient

Excipient is a substance formulated alongside the active ingredient of a medication.

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Export

An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country.

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Fallow

Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles.

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Federal Research Division

The Federal Research Division (FRD) is the research and analysis unit of the United States Library of Congress.

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Fishing industry in Sudan

Fishing in Sudan is largely carried out by the traditional sector for subsistence, although a number of small operators also use the country's major reservoirs and the rivers to catch fish for sale locally and in nearby urban centers.

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Flooding of the Nile

The flooding of the Nile has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times.

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Fodder

Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.

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Forestry in Sudan

Forestry in Sudan includes both traditional gatherers of firewood and producers of charcoal—the main sources of fuel for homes and some industries—and a modern timber and sawmilling industry, the latter government-owned.

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Gezira Scheme

The Gezira Scheme (مشروع الجزيرة) is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world.

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Goat

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.

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Goat meat

Goat meat is the meat of the domestic goat (Capra hircus).

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Goat milk

Goat milk is the milk of domestic goats.

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Grapefruit

The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree known for its relatively large, sour to semi-sweet, somewhat bitter fruit.

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Grazing

In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.

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Grazing rights

Grazing rights is the right of a user to allow their livestock to feed (graze) in a given area.

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Green belt

A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Guava

Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.

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Gum arabic

Gum arabic (gum acacia, gum sudani, Senegal gum and by other names) is a natural gum originally consisting of the hardened sap of two species of the Acacia tree, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal. However, the term "gum arabic" does not actually indicate a particular botanical source.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Herder

A herder is a pastoral worker responsible for the care and management of a herd or flock of domestic animals, usually on open pasture.

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Hibiscus tea

Hibiscus tea is a herbal tea made as an infusion from crimson or deep magenta-colored calyces (sepals) of the roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) flower.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Inoculation

Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism.

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Ironstone Plateau

The Ironstone Plateau (jabal hadid) is a region in the south and west of South Sudan.

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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Jebel Aulia Dam

The Jebal Aulia Dam is a dam on the White Nile near Khartoum, Sudan.

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Kassala

Kassala (كسلا) is the capital of the state of Kassala in eastern Sudan.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Khartoum

Khartoum or Khartum (al-Khurṭūm, pronounced al.xur.tˤuːm) is the capital of Sudan.

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Khartoum North

Khartoum North, or Khartoum Bahri (al-Kharṭūm Baḥrī), is a city in Khartoum State, lying to the north of Khartoum city, the capital of Sudan.

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Khartoum State

Khartoum State (Wilāyat al-Kharṭūm) is one of the eighteen states of Sudan.

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Kingdom of Kush

The Kingdom of Kush (Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.

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Kordofan

Kordofan (كردفان) is a former province of central Sudan.

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Lamb and mutton

Sheep meat is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.

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Land tenure

In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals.

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Lemon

The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India (Assam), Northern Myanmar, and China.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lift irrigation

Periyar lift irrigation in Kadungallur, Kerala Lift irrigation is a method of irrigation in which water is not transported by natural flow, (as in gravity-fed canal) but is lifted with pumps or surge pools etc.

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List of Rift Valley fever outbreaks

Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreaks affecting humans and livestock occur across sub-Saharan Africa, with outbreaks occurring elsewhere infrequently.

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Livelihood

A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life".

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Mahdist War

The Mahdist War (ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Mango

A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica.

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Mangosteen

Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), also known as the purple mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree with edible fruit native to Island Southeast Asia, from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo.

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Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

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Mechanised agriculture

Mechanised agriculture or agricultural mechanization is the use of machinery and equipment, ranging from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated, motorized equipment and machinery, to perform agricultural operations.

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Mereb River

The Mareb River, also known as the Gash River (القاش), is a river flowing out of central Eritrea.

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Millet

Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.

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Mucilage

Mucilage is a thick gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Nilotic peoples

The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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Northern State (Sudan)

Northern is one of the 18 wilayat (states) of Sudan.

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Nuba peoples

The Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of central Sudan.

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Nubia

Nubia (Nobiin: Nobīn) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or more strictly, Al Dabbah.

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Okra

Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus, known in some English-speaking countries as lady's fingers, is a flowering plant in the mallow family native to East Africa.

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Omdurman

Omdurmán (Umm Durmān) is a major city in Sudan.

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Onion

An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Orange (fruit)

An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.

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Oregano

Oregano (Origanum vulgare) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae.

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Papyrus

Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.

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Peanut

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Pig

The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Rainfed agriculture

Rainfed agriculture is a type of farming that relies on rainfall for water.

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Rift Valley fever

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease of humans and livestock that can cause mild to severe symptoms.

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Rinderpest

Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and many other species of even-toed ungulates, including gaurs, buffaloes, large antelope, deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthogs.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Second Sudanese Civil War

The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Senegalia senegal

Senegalia senegal (also known as Acacia senegal) is a small thorny deciduous tree from the genus Senegalia, which is known by several common names, including gum acacia, gum arabic tree, Sudan gum and Sudan gum arabic.

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Sennar

Sennar (سنار) is a city on the Blue Nile in Sudan and possibly the capital of the state of Sennar.

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Sesame

Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is a plant in the genus Sesamum, also called simsim, benne or gingelly.

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Sesame oil

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds.

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Shadoof

A shadoof or shaduf is an irrigation tool that is used to lift water from a water source onto land or into another waterway or basin.

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Sheep's milk

Sheep's milk (or ewes' milk) is the milk of domestic sheep.

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Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain.

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South Kordofan

South Kordofan (جنوب كردفان) is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan.

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South Sudan

South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Stabilizer (chemistry)

In industrial chemistry, a stabilizer or stabiliser is a chemical that is used to prevent degradation.

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Staple (textiles)

A staple fiber is a textile fiber of discrete length.

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Staple food

A staple food, food staple, or simply staple, is a food that is eaten often and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for an individual or a population group, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.

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Subsistence agriculture

Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Surface irrigation

Surface irrigation is where water is applied and distributed over the soil surface by gravity.

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Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland.

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Sweet potato

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tekezé River

The Tekezé River (ተከዜ, ተከዘ; originally meaning "river" in Ge’ez,, also spelled Takkaze), is a major river in Ethiopia.

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Three Towns

Three Towns is a term used to refer to several groups of towns.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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Tomato

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

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Transhumance

Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

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Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan (1820–1824)

The Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan was a major military and technical feat.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Unregistered Lands Act

The Unregistered Lands Act of 1970 was a Sudan legislation.

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Upper Nile (state)

Upper Nile is a state in South Sudan.

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Vaccination

Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop immunity from a disease.

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War in Darfur

The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.

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Water wheel

A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.

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Watermelon

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.

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White Nile

The White Nile (النيل الأبيض) is a river in Africa, the minor of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the Blue Nile.

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White Nile State

White Nile State is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan.

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White sugar

White sugar, also called table sugar, granulated sugar, or regular sugar, is a commonly used type of sugar, made either of beet sugar or cane sugar, which has undergone a refining process.

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Woodland

A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).

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1988 Sudan floods

In early August 1988, severe floods struck Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Sudan

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