Saluka Agriculture along the Nile - 5  piastre

Saluka Agriculture along the Nile - 5 piastre

Year
1951
Face Value
5
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
agriculture

Catalogs References

Michel
SD 142
Yvert & Tellier
SD 107
Stanley Gibbons
SD 134

Technical Details

Colors
Emerald
Size
33 x 29 mm
Perforation
13
Printing
Typography
This stamp highlights Sudan's traditional agricultural crafts, riverine economy, and cooperative farming heritage by depicting a line of farmers planting crops in the fertile Nile mud using a saluka (traditional wooden digging stick). The theme focuses on ancestral food production methods used for millennia during the bilaq (recession agriculture) phase as the annual Nile floodwaters retreated, leaving behind rich, moist soil.