The Sudanese government and the private Sudan…
1924 CE to 1935 CE
An irrigation dam near Sennar, completed in 1925, brings a much larger area in Al Jazirah under cultivation.
Planters send cotton by rail from Sennar to Port Sudan for shipment abroad.
Gezira Scheme makes cotton the mainstay of the country's economy and turns the region into Sudan's most densely populated area.