- Importation of food to supplement on food produced locally.
- Modernization of the agricultural sector to increase food supply through mechanization, irrigation and use of improved seeds.
- Improvement of medical services to reduce spread of diseases and epidemics.
- Construction of skyscrapers to solve problems of land shortage in urban areas.
- Caring out industrialization order to absorb the labor and reduce the rates of unemployment
- Caring out rural transformation programs to reduce rural-urban migration with its associated evils.
- Diversification of the economy to include mining and industrialization and spread labor to reduce unemployment levels.
- Encouraging family planning to reduce rapid population growth.
- Exportation of labor to other countries to reduce domestic unemployment
- Reclamation of land to increase food production.
- Promotion of international trade by encouraging production for exports and getting more foreign exchange to cater for the large population.
- There was the introduction of a policy known as the one-child family by the government where only one child by law is supposed to be produced in a family to reduce high population growth rates in the country.
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