Appraisal of Agricultural Policy in the Sudan

Abstract

Policy: is a set of interrelated decision by actor(s) concerning the selection of goals and the means of achieving them within a specified situation where those decisions should, in principle, be within the power of those actors to achieve, as rational and theoretical product that replies to the demands of the powerful majority of the population. Public policies in the Sudan since independence in 1956 are generally a continuation of those adopted in colonial time of high government-led development, land acquisition, production controls and emphasis on irrigated agriculture. Land and crop taxes, especially indirect ones, formed the bulk of government budget revenue at that time. Agriculture is a cutting-edge sector of the economy that is both prosperous and innovative, yet the government has continued to ignore free-market principles by preserving an endless array of macroeconomic policies, credit and financing policy that centrally plan agriculture by controlling supply and thereby raising prices for consumers and increases the cost of production for producers. In general there are not a well-documented agricultural policies, but depending on the general economic policies that dictates the agricultural policies.