Page "Kariba Dam" Paragraph 12

From " The Shadow of The Dam ", a first-hand account written by David Howarth in the 1960s, referring to the situation in Northern Rhodesia :- " Everything that a government can do on a meagre budget is being done.

Demonstration gardens have been planted, to try to teach the Tonga more sensible methods of agriculture, and to try to find cash crops which they can grow.

The hilly land has been plowed in ridge contours to guard against erosion.

In Sinazongwe, an irrigated garden has grown a prodigious crop of pawpaws, bananas, oranges, lemons, and vegetables, and shown that the remains of the valley could be made prolific if only money could be found for irrigation.

Cooperative markets have been organized, and Tonga are being taught to run them.

Enterprising Tonga have been given loans to set themselves up as farmers.

More schools have been built than the Tonga ever had before, and most of the Tonga are now within reach of dispensaries and hospitals.