Sudan invites Indonesian investors to develop animal husbandry
Jan 22, 2007 (JAKARTA) — Sudan has invited Indonesian investors to develop the animal husbandry sector in the country.
Sudan’s minister of animal resources Galwak Deng Garang made the invitation during a meeting with Indonesian minister of agriculture Anton Apriantono here recently, the Indoesian agency Antara reported.
“The Sudanese government wishes to develop businesses such as slaughter houses, meat processing establishments and a cold storage,” the Indonesian agriculture ministry’s spokesman, Dudi Gunadi, said when briefing news reporters about the result of the meeting.
He said the Sudanese government had also offered cooperation in a biofuel development project using jatropha curcas as raw material.
He said this was still a preliminary talk between the two ministers while the technicalities involved still had yet to be further discussed with the directors general concerned.
While in the country Minister Galwak Deng wished to study the setting up of an agricultural training center and a rice technology-transfer center.
The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on May 19, 2004 on cooperation in animal health and disease control.
The two countries agreed to develop an early warning system to prevent animal diseases from spreading to other regions.
Sudan’s main agricultural products include livestock, cotton, peanuts, sugar and sunflower seeds.
(ST)