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| Title: | Production Responsibility Centre and Productivity Information: An Integrated Approach to Resolving Incongruences in the Public Agricultural Corporations in the Sudan: The Case of the Gezira Scheme |
| Author: | Abdalla, Abdalla Khidir |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 17-41 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
| Geographic terms: | Sudan Northeast Africa |
| Subjects: | agricultural projects Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics, Commerce productivity Agricultural enterprises Measurement systems Economic evaluation Management techniques Gezira Irrigation Scheme |
| Abstract: | Public agricultural corporations, which are triple partnerships between the government, tenants, and managing boards, represent the core of the agricultural sector in Sudan. They are production-oriented organizations pursuing developmental and social objectives as well as financial ones. At present, managerial performance is evaluated in terms of physical productivity of crops. This is inappropriate and fails to provide relevant information for planning and control. What is needed is an integrated approach that takes into account financial and productivity measures simultaneously and considers them jointly. Such an approach may minimize the incongruences in goals and risks between the different parties involved, as well as resolve incongruences between performance measures at the macroeconomic level and the level of the organization or firm. The practicability and usefulness of an integrated production responsibility centre approach is examined with regard to the Gezira Scheme. Bibliogr., sum. |
