Vietnamese agriculture experts and farmers from the southern Mekong Delta
will travel to Sierra Leone this year to help the war-battered country increase
rice production, state media reported Monday.
They will visit from March and assist in setting up an irrigation system for
112 hectares (277 acres) of land and chose one of 57 rice varieties for the
pilot project at Mange Bureh, Port Loko district, said the Vietnam News Agency.
"Due to war and other reasons, the living standards of local residents are
very low and their main foods are potato and cassava," To Van Truong, head of
the Southern Water Conservation Institute, was quoted as saying.
"Sierra Leone and Vietnam have many similarities with regard to their people
and climate. Therefore, we will transfer our farm model to them."
Vietnam became a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council this year
and is the chair of the council's Sierra Leone Committee for 2008.
Vietnamese agriculture experts and farmers from the southern Mekong Delta
will travel to Sierra Leone this year to help the war-battered country increase
rice production, state media reported Monday.
