March 30, 2023
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African nations make strides towards independent development

Date: 17/03/2023 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

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African countries are getting more energetic in their efforts to cope with the ever-worsening global food and energy crisis.

The Ugandan government, as the country’s agricultural development has been greatly hampered by extreme weather conditions in recent years, is allocating huge funds to the construction of hundreds of irrigation systems in over 20 provinces in the northern and eastern areas which are often affected by severe droughts.

It is pushing ahead with a project for supporting residents and peasants who are vulnerable to drought damage by completing a solar-powered irrigation system by next year.

It is also taking measures to help complete the irrigation system by improving water supply to rural areas and lowering taxes to some extent and to prevent various kinds of diseases spreading through local areas.

In a recent ceremony to declare the initiation of a new agricultural modernization project held in the plaza of the Dakar grand theatre, the Senegalese president said that a large sum of fund will be appropriated for the project which includes the introduction of new farm machinery and construction of agricultural product storage facilities.

Hundreds of kinds of agricultural equipment such as tractors, multi-purpose harvesters, irrigation water pumps and cold-storage chambers, which had already been purchased, were on display in the plaza.

Saying they should attain self-sufficiency in agricultural products in order to overcome the fluctuations of global trade, the president stressed the need to mechanize agriculture, introduce irrigation cultivation, reduce the loss of farm produce, apply machinery and equipment to all sectors and promote technical learning.

The South African president in his policy speech for 2023 at a joint session of the houses of the parliament said that the government set forth five major objectives, including the repair and replacement of old thermal power generation facilities of the state-run electricity company in order to create additional power generation capacity of 4-6 million kW, encouragement of private capital investment in a new 9 million kW power generation capacity building project, production of 2.8 million kW  of renewable energy and expansion of the storage capacity, installation of solar panels at businesses and houses and switch to sustainable electricity production modes, in July 2022.

He declared a state of disaster to achieve the above goals and overcome the current electricity crisis, saying a special measure is essential in a special situation.

He also noted that the government will plan investment in the switch to sustainable electricity production modes such as green hydrogen, electric car, solar energy and wind power and, as the modes are established, turn bleak deserts into a green hydrogen source based on solar energy.

Nigeria is trying to ease energy shortages and improve electricity delivery to residents who have no access to electricity.

The minister of state for electricity in a ceremony held in Abuja said that since development of renewable energy is a fast way to resolve the country’s electricity shortage, the federal government decided to push it forward.

African countries’ efforts for achieving independent economic development are going on.

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