Development of Resources: Growing Cotton in Sudan

The lifeline of many poor countries is the export of raw materials. If that line is to hold firm, these countries must have stable and equitable prices for the commodities they sell to the industrial world. The resources of land and sea, however, must not be exploited for nationalistic ends, but for the benefit of all mankind.
Picking cotton in one of the fields surrounding New Halfa. The farmers of Wadi Halfa (Northern Sudan) who were resettled in New Halfa to make room for the construction of the Aswan High Dam have successfully cultivated their new fields. Under a Government rehabilitation programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) helped the resettled farmers with food rations. [Exact date unknown]