Editorial :Yes for Upgrading .. No for Selling
The sugar industry in Sudan, generally, is one of the pioneering industries in the framework of resources replacement; just like other vital industries for self-sufficiency and food security.
Sugar has, over the years, become a commodity as strategically important as advanced weaponry and technology industries.
Those who own the sugar commodity can control one of the most important markets in the globe.
Despite the success of sugar industry in the country and its covering the demand, we hear that the government plans to sell stakes in four state-owned sugar plants to attract partners.
We believe that Sudan should keep these factories in the framework of the government's ownership essentially or; if necessary, in the framework of transitional, not permanent, partnerships.
It is not convincible from our officials to say that the government would not completely withdraw from the firm, because it is commendable to add more sugar factories considering the tangible success of the existing plants.
It goes without saying that our sugar plants have highly qualified experts and technicians; so why do we think of selling such successful institutions. Why shouldn't we instead opt for exploiting some of the millions of acres of fertile agricultural land and install new sugar plants where partners own stakes transitionally?
The Sudanese are looking forward to the completion of the new sugar factories to join a number of highly successful sugar projects such as Kenana and White Nile sugar factories; but selling already productive plants is not something they await.
Most countries round the globe are exerting all possible efforts to be able to grow sugar cane and produce sugar whose price doubles every day considering that most of the modern industries rely on it.
Sudan has been trying to improve the efficiency of the Sudanese Sugar Companies, and Kenana, in particular, plans to increase production by doubling its sugar output to one million tons by 2015, so why do we resort to such a defeatist idea?
The idea of selling any successful company is a basically a malicious and hardly sage idea unless our officials convince us otherwise.
To sum it up we say that selling sugar plants will be one of the big mistakes which will be recorded against the government.
We call for upgrading the existing sugar factories and to plan the implementation of more to ensure turning Sudan, where sugar is concerned, into the African Cuba or Brazil.
Sugar has, over the years, become a commodity as strategically important as advanced weaponry and technology industries.
Those who own the sugar commodity can control one of the most important markets in the globe.
Despite the success of sugar industry in the country and its covering the demand, we hear that the government plans to sell stakes in four state-owned sugar plants to attract partners.
We believe that Sudan should keep these factories in the framework of the government's ownership essentially or; if necessary, in the framework of transitional, not permanent, partnerships.
It is not convincible from our officials to say that the government would not completely withdraw from the firm, because it is commendable to add more sugar factories considering the tangible success of the existing plants.
It goes without saying that our sugar plants have highly qualified experts and technicians; so why do we think of selling such successful institutions. Why shouldn't we instead opt for exploiting some of the millions of acres of fertile agricultural land and install new sugar plants where partners own stakes transitionally?
The Sudanese are looking forward to the completion of the new sugar factories to join a number of highly successful sugar projects such as Kenana and White Nile sugar factories; but selling already productive plants is not something they await.
Most countries round the globe are exerting all possible efforts to be able to grow sugar cane and produce sugar whose price doubles every day considering that most of the modern industries rely on it.
Sudan has been trying to improve the efficiency of the Sudanese Sugar Companies, and Kenana, in particular, plans to increase production by doubling its sugar output to one million tons by 2015, so why do we resort to such a defeatist idea?
The idea of selling any successful company is a basically a malicious and hardly sage idea unless our officials convince us otherwise.
To sum it up we say that selling sugar plants will be one of the big mistakes which will be recorded against the government.
We call for upgrading the existing sugar factories and to plan the implementation of more to ensure turning Sudan, where sugar is concerned, into the African Cuba or Brazil.
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