Left vs. right As early as 1992, there were 11 international corporations willing to develop 2100 hectares on the left bank of the Nakambe, where reclamation work would be relatively easy. But, perhaps because multilateral cooperation is difficult to coordinate, it was only in September of 1997 that the first 600 hectares were formally opened for use.
早在一九九二年，即有十一國財團願意在較易開墾的那干貝河左岸，協助布國闢建二千一百公頃的灌溉墾區，但可能因多國合作較難協調之故，直到一九九七年九月才舉行第一期六百公頃開工典禮。