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of east timor s independence from indonesia. what s east timor like now 20 years after independence? i spoke to michael leach, who has just returned from east timor after being an observer in the election. yes, look, it s a bustling south east asian society. there s still quite a high level of poverty, but people are very proud of their independence there in timor leste. it s a beautiful developing country with a lot of subsistence agriculture still. very heavily reliant on their oil and gas they produce. needing to develop new industries before the oil and gas runs out. this is the kind of context in which this election took place. and what are the promises that have been made to improve life there, to win this second election? yes, look, like a lot of countries around the world there s something of a covid recession taking place in east timor, timor leste.
economy is well diversified. we just need to expand those other sectors, make sure that they are sustained. well, ok, so agriculture is the biggest employer of people in nigeria. governments in africa, including yours, pledged to spend 10% of the public. ..the accounts every year, the annual budget. what do you spend on agriculture in nigeria? it s nowhere near 10%, is it? it s not yet 10%, but it is significant enough to have made consistent improvement in the agricultural sector. now, also we re trying to move away from just government spending on agriculture and concentrating on providing incentives so that agriculture moves from subsistence agriculture to agribusiness, where a lot of processing is done. sure. ..and manufacturing is enhanced, so that we are adding value to our products. but the broad point i want to make here, and i quote iseoluwa akintunde,