However, East Africa clearly could not return to the age of slavery, and this had also slowed many important projects across East Africa.
Yalstede continued, "Through regional water transfers, we can distribute water resources more evenly and expand the boundaries of the Empire's agriculture and ecology. This should count as opening new sources."
"At the end-user water areas, meanwhile, we use technical measures to control water consumption and improve water-use efficiency. That is cutting expenditure."
"We will use the three southern provinces as experimental zones to explore regional water-transfer projects. By then, from Upington City to Kimberley and Bloemfontein City, then to Otto City and Gaborone City, as well as New Hamburg City east of the Drakensberg Mountains and Maputo, a powerful Southern City Cluster will take shape, becoming a new pole of the Empire's economy."
After the discussion on water-saving agriculture, the East African government's main topic in the agricultural sector was comprehensive land improvement.
This issue chiefly covered three aspects: first, soil improvement in cultivated areas; second, soil and water conservation in pastoral regions; and finally, protection of ecological boundaries.
Minister Berkeley of the Ministry of Land and Resources said, "The Empire has more than two hundred million mu of arable land, but such a vast area of farmland has also profoundly affected our Ecological Environment."
"As for problems within cultivated areas, unreasonable development and use have led to declining soil fertility, falling grain output, soil compaction, salinization and alkalization, and other increasingly prominent issues. In some places, they have even triggered related natural disasters, such as sandstorms and blowing dust."
"Therefore, the Ministry of Land and Resources believes that some improperly cultivated areas should be withdrawn from farming and restored to grassland, forests, or even lakes and wetlands."
Besides ecological considerations, the Ministry of Land and Resources