EXPORT OF SUDANESE HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Export of Sudanese horticultural produce to European and Arab markets, which peaked in the seventies, proved its potential as a foreign exchange earner.

Vegetable exports to European markets came to a halt in 1981, with fruit exports (mainly lime and mango) to Arab countries dwindling.
Infrastructural, production, technical and administrative factors have precipitated that situation.

Revival of Sudanese horticultural export entails the formation of an export organization empowered to overcome the aforementioned multifaceted problems.
The export organization could either be:

1. An export marketing board with membership from the private exporters, public sector, and farmer’s cooperatives.
   As such it serves as a regulatory body working independently of the government.

2. A state-owned enterprise that monopolizes the whole chain of the horticultural produce-export trade.

VIII African Symposium on Horticultural Crops

Kahil S. Yousif

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1984.143.59