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Last Updated: Friday, 16 February 2007, 13:30 GMT

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Tanzania to get rain-making help

A lot of cattle died in Tanzania last year because of the drought
Tanzania has been given permission to import rain-making technology from the king of Thailand, Thai media report.
The patented cloud-seeding technique involves aircraft releasing a chemical into clouds to induce rainfall.

A team of experts is to travel to the drought-prone East Africa nation to demonstrate it and train people, the Thai agriculture minister confirmed.

Last year, failed rains left millions of Tanzanians near starvation and affected electricity supplies.

The director of Thailand's Bureau of Royal Rainmaking Research said he was hopeful the technology would work successfully in Tanzania.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6368371.stm