Though the soil was much harder, given the round-the-clock efforts of the ATM, work that was scheduled to take one year was completed within eight months. Despite getting a later start, the Taiwan project zoomed forward. Wet paddy field was opened hectare by hectare, and the project was widely praised by the Burkina Faso government and the local media, setting a firm foundation for continued bilateral cooperation.
相對的，台灣農技團落腳的那干貝河右岸，雖然土質堅硬，卻在農技團無日無夜的工作下，在八個月間完成了一年的工作進度，「後發先至」將水稻田一畦畦的開墾出來，獲得布國政府及當地媒體的好評，也為後來的合作奠下良好基礎。