Annual report of the Sudan Veterinary Service.

  • Sudan. Veterinary Service.
Date:
[1949]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Sudan Veterinary Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hides, Skins and Leather. Hide exports continued to increase greatly and totalled 2,383 tons valued at £e. 373,409 compared with 1991 tons valued at £e. 271,380 in 1948 The principal importers were Egypt 1355 tons, Greece 282 tons, Italy 231 tons and the United Kingdom 205 tons. 376,904 hides, an increase of over 90,000 over last year’s figures, passed through the export grading depots. Approximately 82,000 were dry salted hides from the slaughter houses in the Blue Nile, Khartoum, Kordofan, Northern and Kassala Provinces. Of the 295,000 air dried hides graded, 261,000 were from Darfur Upper Nile and Bahr-El-Ghazal provinces. The percentage of frame dried hides was lower than last year—7.2 percent compared with 10 percent—but varied from 0 percent in Blue Nile, Kassala and Northern provinces, 3.6 percent in Kordofan Province, 4.7 percent in Darfur Province, 6.4 percent in Bahr-El-Ghazal Province 10 percent in Khartoum Province, 12.4 percent in Upper Nile Province to 30 percent in Equatoria Province. Upper Nile Province with 10,744 hides was far and away the largest producer of frame dried hides. The grading depot at Wadi Haifa was closed down during the year. Sheep skin exports totalled 1366 tons valued at £e. 204,866 compared with 1235 tons valued at £e. 213,362 in 1948. The United Kingdom with 815 tons, the United States of America with 384 tons and the Netherlands with 108 tons were the principal buyers. Goat skin exports totalled 224 tons valued at £e. 44,673 com¬ pared with 145 tons valued at £e. 31,619 in 1948. The United States of America with 93 tons, the United Kingdom with 45 tons, the Netherlands and France each with 26 tons and Italy with 24 tons were the biggest importers. Exports of other hides and skins chiefly snake, crocodile and lizard amounted to 7 tons valued £e. 11,843 compared with 10 tons at £e. 13,363 in 1948. Egypt imported more than half of the total. Leather exports totalled 92 tons valued at £e. 30,281 compared with 149 tons at £e. 47,757 in 1948. With the exception of 3 tons of light goat leather which was exported to the United Kingdom, Egypt received all exports of leather. INTERNAL TRADE. Livestock Markets and Slaughtering Figures. The numbers of cattle, sheep, camels and goats sold in the main internal markets continued to increase ; over ^ million animals being sold for £e. 1,673,000. Details of these sales were 381,690 sheep for £e. 680,815, 110,718 cattle for £e. 668,794, 25,348 camels for £e. 304,386 and 18,885 goats for £e. 27,561. Compared with the previous year average prices decreased for camels and there was little change in cattle, sheep and goat prices. The average price of cattle sold in the El Obeid market was lower than last year ; £e. 4,962 compared with £e. 5,079.