Public services are patchy and roads awful; schools are free but bad; there is basic health care but no nearby hospital.The payments involved are small and 70% of the target population are illiterate.
Under a scorching sun in Mohiuddinpur village on May 2nd she spoke brightly of getting among ordinary folk, denied anyone local had spoken of corruption but admitted to anger over patchy electricity and roads.Yet both siblings have an unhealthily feudal attitude.
The place is saddled with bumpy roads, patchy telecommunications networks and a nuclear rival in Pakistan.
It is the perfect end to a patchy year on the road and track for Wiggins, who won the Tour of California in May, but then missed out on Team Sky selection for the Tour de France and had to settle for silver in the velodrome in the team pursuit at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Optimists hope he will get to grips with other problems as well, including chronic under-investment that has left Nigeria with clogged roads and patchy power.
Kalibata said African farmers faced numerous challenges including poor access to markets, often because of bad roads or patchy transport links.
The number should rise, he hopes, to 10m by the end of the year.Too far from farm to forkThe biggest impediment may be lousy infrastructure: crumbling roads and patchy supplies of electricity and water.
One collection-point manager, a tall Sikh in a pink turban, says his family is in Canada but he would not dream of quitting his job to join them.Demand for dairy products is voracious, but supply is iffy because of India's awful roads and patchy chill chain (ie, it is hard to keep milk chilled from pail to lips).
The core of the fighting is taking place in the northern Unity and Upper Nile states, regions with barely functional roads and patchy telecommunication infrastructure.
Communications in the Arctic are extremely challenging – cellphone reception is patchy, and there are no roads.
