Three months ago, farmers working on the Yobe/Korean irrigation farm project in Garin Gada, under the harsh harmattan weather, wore grim faces. Some were weeding the rice, wheat and vegetable farms which had been planted earlier, while others were planting the newly cleared fields. As they worked, they re-collected, with pains, the poor harvests they had recorded over the years. This, of course, had arisen from the gross decline in rainfall across the state.

Vietnamese experts will help Chad to implement a series of activities aimed at improving the African country’s food security under a tripartite South-South Cooperation agreement signed at the weekend.