JOINT WORK URGED
Neiv African Countries (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia). A recommendation to the Governments of Niger, Mali and Upper Volta that they should adopt a co-ordinated approach to their problems of economic development is made in a report published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
Noting that the majority, some 90 to 95 per cent, of the 11,400,000 people living in the three countries are in rural areas, and that subsistence agriculture is their main source of livelihood, the report urged the three Governments to take the initiative in the process of modernisation.
The problems facing the three countries are broadly similar, says the report. They include a low level of literacy, poor nutrition, small national markets, the problem of access to the sea, the division of the population into cultivators and nomads, and an archaic agricultural system. The total cultivated area in the three states is very small, says the report—about 1.2 per cent of all land in Mali, 2 per cent in Niger, and 6 per cent in Upper Volta.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 5
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175JOINT WORK URGED Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 5
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