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On April 27, 2007, Wang Yingwu and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Relations Altman signed an exchange of letters on agricultural technology cooperation on behalf of their respective governments. The Chinese side agreed to send 14 agricultural technicians to help Cha implement irrigation and water conservancy in the 3,000 hectares of Bangor rice fields. Facility maintenance and agricultural technology promotion, restoration of 40 hectares of rice and vegetable demonstration bases in Kundule County, outskirts of N’Djamena, and provision of technical guidance for 24 hectares of rice and vegetable demonstration bases in the Jidiya Reclamation Area in the suburbs of N’Djamena from time to time, and On-site training of technicians from agricultural research institutions. On December 13, 2006, China sent a team of 6 from the China Aid Agricultural Technology Group to Chad, and the second batch of 8 experts arrived on May 22, 2007 (中国援乍农技组). The agricultural technology group was dispatched by the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Currently, nine experts are resident in the village of Kolobo, Bangor City. Five experts are resident in N’Djamena.
Staff comments
The first batch of experts arrived in Chad in 2006, so the commitment year is recorded as 2006.