SUDAN IRRIGATION.
INCREASED COTTON-GROWING. ' (reuter's telegrams,) (Keceived October 7th, 7.30 p.m.)LONDON, October 6. Sir Geoffrey Archer states that the great Sudan cotton irrigation -scheme is not yet.fait accompli, but the. dam has been completed, and aready 80,000 acres are under cotton. The completion of the scheme will result in -3,000,000 acres being available for cotton-growing under the triennial system. This will mean.a crop of 1,000,000 acres yearly.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18507, 8 October 1925, Page 10
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