Habila (Arabic: حبيلة) is a small town in central Sudan, located several kilometres southeast of Umm Dam.

The idea was to use the fertile cracking clay soils that were not suited to traditional agriculture to try to improve food shortage problems.

By 1979, about 147 000 ha were officially leased under official schemes sorghum but production was greatly expanded and the proportion of fallow land decreased dramatically, with about 45 per cent of mechanized agriculture produced in illegal areas by 1985.

[1] This occurred in many other places in Sudan following government policy in the 1970s to "become the bread basket of the Arab world".

[1] Poor planning led to drought, internal warfare and famine as the soils become unfertile and unsustainable in Habila and reached a crisis in 1994.