About Company
COUNTRY PROFILE
Area:
One million sq. Miles
Population:
40
million persons
Languages:
Arabic is the main language, English is widely spoken
Beside other indigenous languages.
Economy:
The economy depends on Petroleum, gold and other minerals, agriculture and
agricultural based industries.
Main Products:
Petroleum, Cotton, Gum Arabic, Oil seeds, Wheat, Sorghum, Livestock,
Gold and other minerals.
THE
SUDAN COTTON COMPANY LTD.
Following
the Nationalization of cotton trade in 1970 the COTTON PUBLIC
CORPORATION (CPC)
was established to undertake marketing of all cotton produced in
Sudan.
In 1986 CPC was refounded to form The Sudan Cotton
Company Ltd (SCCL).
In
1993 SCC moved from the control of public sector to the private
sector in the context of an overall economic reorientation towards
market economy.
The shareholders in the new formulation are:
-
Gezira farmers.
-
Rahad
farmers.
-
New
Halfa farmers.
-
Farmers' Commercial Bank.
-
National Pension Fund.
The
effect of this change on production is that it enables the farmers
to decide according to the market situations, the area and varieties, which will be allocated to various crops including cotton .
- Branch Of The Company Is :
Port Sudan Warehouses
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