Agricultural Rehabilitation Programme

a) assist the Government of the Sudan in its on-going efforts to physically rehabilitate the agricultural sector which was adversely affected by a combination of negative factors such as drought, inadequate management, institutional weaknesses and declining productivity ; b) restore the productive capability of the sector through the provision of the critical seasonal inputs and spare parts required for crop, agro-industry and animal production ; c) contribute, in the medium and long run, to reducing the country's dependence on external financing for its inputs and spare parts requirements by helping generate a hefty agricultural surplus for export and thus increasing the country's foreign exchange earnings ; d) induce the Government to pursue more vigourously its declared policy of incentive creation through adequate and regulary adjusted producer prices coupled with the adoption of a policy of export revival and liberalization with a view to ultimaded increasing the country's debt service capability and thus help reduce its huge external debt ; and e) improve the efficiency and capacity utilization of the agro-based industries.