Israel has identified 4 clear basic interests of normalization with Sudan, which are summarized in security, immigration, tourism and agriculture, and it aspires to achieve them through investment in this country that shares borders with 7 African countries, linking it with roads.
The port of Port Sudan is used to deliver agricultural products, at a time when Tel Aviv described Sudan as a "food basket" for the African continent.
Experience has shown that Tel Aviv has persistently spoiled the African "food basket" and the natural resources of some Arab countries, especially the printing press.
There are reports that indicated that the fertilizers and pesticides used by Israel in Egypt were carcinogenic and killed the country's distinctive exports of potatoes and strawberries to Europe and the Middle East, as Israel leaked information that led to the ban on Egyptian agricultural exports, which affected the Egyptian economy.
Contrary to the Egyptian experience, Tel Aviv is racing against time to dominate Khartoum’s capabilities, which was evident in the recent visit of the Israeli Minister of Intelligence, Eli Cohen, to Sudan, who revealed Israeli interests and ambitions, by investing in the commercial, industrial and agricultural sectors, and establishing a fertilizer and chemical plant in Khartoum, to be the first An Israeli factory established in an Arab or Islamic country.
Incursion into Sudan
Tel Aviv views Khartoum as Israel's gateway to Africa, except for the ambitions to exploit agricultural and natural resources to expand the activity of Israeli companies in the continent, and to establish a foothold in Africa and the Red Sea, to compete with any investment attempts by Saudi Arabia and to confront Turkish influence and investment.
Israeli companies and Jewish businessmen aspire to penetrate Sudan by investing in the fields of renewable energy, health, aviation and agriculture, as the Israeli establishment encourages - and to tighten its control over Sudan - Jewish companies to implement these projects by initiatives and companies of the trade and private sector.
The first Israeli step to establish a foothold in Sudan was evidenced by the announcement of the Dashan Fertilizers and Agrochemicals Company that it was ready to fully finance and invest 100%, to establish a fertilizer plant in Khartoum.
Marketing staff for "Dashan Al Shamal" for fertilizers and chemicals during an agricultural exhibition in Wadi Araba (communication sites)
Israeli perspective
In order to further control the wealth and resources of Sudan, Israel is looking forward to delegating its specialized delegations and missions to Khartoum in order to identify possible ways to dominate the livestock and agricultural wealth and raise cattle and livestock, and to put a hand on this sector that characterizes Sudan, to be under the weight of Israeli companies that will exploit Sudan's resources to multiply profits And incursion into the African continent.
Assuming an Israeli incursion into Sudan economically and commercially, Khartoum, according to the Israeli journalist and economist, Danny Zakin, "is a completely different story from the Gulf countries. The main industry in Sudan is agriculture in the Nile Basin that passes through Sudan, and along the way. In both directions, from Ethiopia and Kenya in the south to Egypt, there are huge agricultural areas, as the water and fertile soil coming from the Ethiopian mountains are likely to be a grain barn and food basket in Africa controlled by Israel.
According to the Israeli journalist, the presence of Tel Aviv will compete with any initiatives by Saudi Arabia and any attempts by Turkey to invest in Sudan, so that the commercial and economic hegemony of the place will be in the future of Israel.
Earth needs
According to the executive director of the agricultural chemicals company of the "CTC" economic group in Sudan, Khaled Amin Abdul Latif, the country now needs, according to the cultivated areas "40 million acres", to two million tons of fertilizers, which can be increased if the cultivation of the land expands.
Abdul Latif told Al-Jazeera Net that investing in the fertilizer industry will definitely be feasible, provided that the plant to be constructed takes into account a preferential advantage in what follows the advanced technology.
He believes that Sudan is very late in the field of fertilizers, as agriculture depends on seeds and pesticides, and fertilizers whose imported quantities do not exceed about 300 thousand tons, with a bill not exceeding 150 million to two hundred million dollars.
The executive director of the "CTC" group explains that the recommendations of the African Union in the field of agriculture recommend an average amount of 50 kilograms of fertilizer per acre, but the average use in Sudan is only about 8 kilograms per acre.
He continues, "If fertilizers are available, a shift will occur, because the production of an acre fertilized from corn, for example, can reach 11 sacks, while the production of an acre without fertilizer does not exceed two sacks, even though the two acres are in the same land and the amount of rain."
Abdel-Latif indicated that the majority of Sudan's use of nitrogenous fertilizers is limited to "urea and dab" fertilizers at a rate of 98% in exchange for a simple use of chemical fertilizer (NPK) consisting of 3 elements "nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium".
The first Israeli step to establish a foothold in Sudan was evidenced by "Dashan" announcing its willingness to establish a fertilizer plant in Khartoum (communication sites)
Israeli plans
But in light of the exposure of the Israeli ambitions for natural resources, Badr al-Din Hussein Ali, Executive Director of the Popular Forces to Resist Normalization in Sudan, looks with suspicion at Israel's plans to manage its interests with Khartoum, which requires the government to pay attention, asking: Why does Israel begin its cooperation with agriculture?
In his answer to this question, Ali tells Al-Jazeera Net that the contribution of agriculture to the gross product of Israel is 2.5%, while arable land is estimated at 20%, but it is almost sufficient in agricultural products by 95%, which confirms that it is distinguished in agricultural technology, which is what poses Asked about the secret of its tendency to invest in fertilizers instead of agricultural technology.
He believes that the experiences of the printed countries with Israel are not promising in terms of the fact that Tel Aviv in Egypt eradicated the Egyptian cotton strains by introducing core cotton, and also reclaimed lands and irrigated them with sewage water and used harmful Israeli fertilizers.
The Sudanese executive director for resisting normalization says that Israel offered polluted and cheap products that flooded the Jordanian market, which affected local producers and reduced agricultural production and forced the Kingdom to reduce Israeli imports to protect the local product.
He points out that in late 2020 Israel destroyed Palestinian agricultural lands on the security tape, after flooding it with water and toxic pesticides to displace farmers and affect food security in the Gaza Strip.
Self-sufficiency
The Executive Director of the Forces of Resisting Normalization says that Israel was previously involved in the leakage of illegal fertilizers in Yemen, which after examination turned out to be carcinogenic and with a high impact on the nervous system, kidneys and liver.
Ali believed that Israel would go to agriculture in Sudan in two lines, the first of which is an attempt to sign long-term contracts for land reclamation and exploitation with difficult penal terms to put pressure on Egyptian national security in the south, and may involve itself as a fourth partner in the issue of the Renaissance Dam, and that it has a share of the Nile water in the future.
He advises the Khartoum government to rectify what it considers a dangerous indicator related to Israel's intention to establish a fertilizer plant in Sudan, at a time when it does not export its agricultural technologies that enabled it to become self-sufficient from limited agricultural lands.