Sudan is the world's largest producer of gum arabic

Expo.. The two trees "Hashab and Acacia" produce "The Secret of Food and Drugs"

• Photography: Ashok Verma

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The Sudan Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai provides its visitors, through a virtual journey with pictures and interactive displays, exciting information about the “hashab and acacia” trees, which produce gum arabic.

Sudan, which is the world's largest producer of gum arabic, supplies the global market with this commodity of high strategic, nutritional and medicinal importance, with about 80% of global production.

Gum arabic, which is an emulsion of the trunks and branches of the “hashab and acacia” trees, is included in many industries, including the pharmaceutical and medical drug industries, the food industries, the food beverages industry, paper and tissues, banknotes, the mixed bread industry, dairy products and ice Cream and confectionery, and the manufacture of weapons, aircraft and cars, paints, and cosmetics.

The gum, with its natural ingredients, is used as a vital and beneficial food for public health, and for kidney patients, and the "Hashab and Acacia" trees are more than 30 years old. The gum arabic belt extends from the eastern borders of Sudan with Ethiopia, to central and western Sudan, to its borders with Chad and Central Africa. Sudan produces gum in the areas of traditional rain-fed agriculture. There are many types of gum arabic, including the gum of the hashab tree, which is distinguished by its high quality, in addition to the gum of the acacia tree. Despite the decline in the production of gum arabic in Sudan in recent years, due to some environmental, climatic and other conditions, great efforts are being made to develop and increase production, and to solve the problems facing this important economic resource for a country like Sudan, which is rich in many other resources, such as agriculture. and livestock.

Gum arabic is one of Sudan's important agricultural exports, along with cotton, sesame and groundnuts.

In addition to gum arabic, the Sudan pavilion at the Expo also receives its visitors on a virtual trip to introduce folklore in Sudan, cultural diversity, charming nature, historical and tourist attractions, folk dances, and traditional costumes in the “country of the two Niles”, white and blue.

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