But the country is rough and poor and not suited to a farming population, and therefore the tribe has been utterly ruined and in fact has almost been obliterated.
The districts built farm-to-market roads to serve the agricultural needs of the farming population of the area at the time; they connected farmers with markets in their local communities.
Between 2001 and 2011, the overall proportion of the farming population having some formal agricultural education increased from 24% of the total to 44%, an increase of 83%.
If we do not have students in agricultural colleges we will not have a well-trained farming population to utilise and manage our farms in the years ahead.