Cotton, sesame, gum arabic, sorghum, peanuts (groundnuts), and sugarcane are among Sudan’s principal agricultural products. Sorghum and millet are the primary subsistence crops, with lesser quantities of wheat, maize and barley.
Sudanese agriculture can be divided into four main subsectors: traditional rain-fed farming, mechanised rain-fed crop production, livestock raising, and modern irrigated farming, the majority of which is done on a large scale with the assistance of government investment.
Sudan is a multilingual country. The official languages of Sudan are Literary Arabic or Modern Standard Arabic and English according to the 2005 constitution of the Republic of Sudan.
These are the languages also spoken in Sudan
- Beja
- Nubian
- Fur
- Masalit
- Zaghawa
- Languages of the Nuba Mountains
Sudan and South Africa have Africa’s largest agricultural lands, with 113 million and 96.3 million hectares, respectively, with substantial disparities in agricultural production.