ABSTRACT
Kenana is the second largest employer in Sudan, after Sudan Government. Despite several decades of modern irrigated agriculture, Sudan lacks sufficient skilled manpower, a problem compounded by the perennial drain of skilled and qualified Sudanese to the oil-rich countries of the Arabian Peninsula. As the Administrative Manager pointed out in 1980, ‘If we used just Sudanese manpower we would need all the trained personnel from every other sugar factory and plantation in the Sudan.’
