To work in Tanzania

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33815, 11 April 1975, Page 7

To work in Tanzania

Towards the end of this month Air A. G. Barwell, a Dunsandel farmer and farm adviser. will leave for Tanzania to work under New Zealand’s foreign aid programme in the highlands in the south west part of the country.

His contract is initially for two years. The country he is going to was initially a United Nations development block. It comprises 800,000 to 900.000 acres of country at about 7000 to 8000 ft, seven to eight degrees below the equator and has a climate similar to the Canterbury foothills.

It is for this reason that New Zealand has been asked to help to develop a pastoral industry. A lot of New Zealand techniques should apply there, according to Mr Harwell. The country is similar to unimproved tussock grasslands and the soils are like

those in rhe Rotorua-Taupo area in the North Island. It is basically Corriedale sheep. Hereford beef cattle and Friesian dairy cow country and there are alreay some of these stockon it.

Mr Barwell expects to be doing some research and advising the Tanzanians on development of this country’.

Tanzania is a poor country and Mr Barwell says 1 that the highlands could' become a big food produc-1 ing area.

Earlier in the year two New Zealanders went to the northern part of the country to set up a farm training school similar to Flock House at Bulls.

Mr Banveil says that Mr T. E. Ludecke, of Lincoln College, is adviser to the New Zealand Government on foreign aid in Tanzania.

Mr Barwell will he accompanied by his wife i and Rachel, aged seven; years and a half, and Joe,j aged four years and a half. They will study with the i New Zealand Correspon-1 dence School, 1