Beshir

Education in Khartoum

Beshir is sowing cucumber only 500 meters from the center-pivots of the company. This rainy season (July-Nov 2016) he rents 6 feddan and has 2 feddan to produce vegetables (okra, Zucchini, tomatoes) for the Karthoum market, only 1,5 hours away from here.

Basheer sowing okra seeds on the side of a cucumber plot

Basheer weeding okra with his cousins in 2015

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Beshir with hoe

Although Basheer is a fulltime farmer, his family combined farming with working as labourers. They have little cattle.

Basheer’s father an other family members were working in the brick factories on the Nile banks (see pictures) or in building houses. Basheer does not want to work in bricks and focuses on agriculture, because he earns good money with it.

Basheer’s family was not a land owning family, but before DAL his father rented land in the ‘Kuwaiti’ irrigation scheme (between 1991-2005), on average 4 feddan.

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The main canal upstream overgrown with plants, separating the farmer fields (left) and the Company (right)

A diesel pump at the main canal

Defying laws of gravity

Pipe delivers water to field canal with inverse slope. Basheer and cousins dug this field canal to get the water to the field. The pressure of the water pushes it forward towards the field intake.