And the ambitions of British policy 147 which is valued at one pound to seven pounds. The project is still in its infancy, and many years may pass before Sudan's agricultural culture can say that it cannot find work to invest capital that will increase according to the empire's current needs and its urgent future need to cultivate cotton within its sphere. Last year's cotton crop reached 12,300 bales, and the cotton factories need 350,000 bales annually. *** In the same month, The Times correspondent spoke about the Sudan irrigation project under the title "A Million Feddans for Cotton Cultivation," saying: The Danger of the Gezira Land Irrigation Project in Sudan In 1899. This project concerns an area of three thousand feddans located between latitudes 14 and 15 North and extending along the Blue Nile. After the completion of additional projects in the future, this area is expected to expand to one million feddans that can be irrigated and cultivated. Those who devised the dam project did not fail to account for this future expansion of the project so that the need can be met when the time comes. The reservoir prepared to hold water by building this dam actually extends to the town of "Singa," which is a distance of 58 miles along the river. It will hold about 636 million cubic meters of water, and this amount will be sufficient to irrigate the larger area. This means that the water needed for the current project, and the need to expand the agricultural area, will require another dam on the upper reaches of the Blue Nile. By this means, the Gezira land will use the water that used to reach the sea and go to waste (sic).