Originally Posted by TK:
age and irrigation costs...are those major factors?
Drainage and irrigation cost was perhaps the crucial single variable that caused the African peasantry to stay at a subsistence level. Polder agriculture in that kind of tropical environment is always going to increase average cost. They need to identify crops and industry that can best thrive in a tropical polder system. The Dutch polder system is not the same.
TK, in your research have you come across any crops that thrive in this polder system? If others know, feel free to opine. thx,