Yemen cultivates both coffee and khat, despite its dense population, Although they have an mountainous terrain. In contrast, Somalia has far more fertile land but imports khat worth billions of dollars from Kenya and Ethiopia and grows very little of its own crops.
Theyre not lazy they just donβt know how to grow stuff. Somalis are pastoralists in nature and most of the people in major cities today are 1 generation removed from miyi culture. Most of them should be sent back to where they came fromThere is only one reason for this, Somali people are extremely lazy(except for the geeljire).
Theyre not lazy they just donβt know how to grow stuff. Somalis are pastoralists in nature and most of the people in major cities today are 1 generation removed from miyi culture. Most of them should be sent back to where they came from
Even this 'not knowing how to grow stuff' is a huge misconception. Somali nomads themselves used to plant some kind of grain if I am not mistaken, how else did we eat canjeelo. In addition, there are old date farms in Bari. I am sure there is more evidence out there. Maybe @Idilinaa will post evidence before the retirement?
Documentary about an ancient trading town called 'Geesaleey'
They mention the founding of the place, was 5 centuries ago, but I am sure it's far, far older.www.somalispot.com
Theyre not lazy they just donβt know how to grow stuff. Somalis are pastoralists in nature and most of the people in major cities today are 1 generation removed from miyi culture. Most of them should be sent back to where they came from
Please stop with the misinformation. Somalis DO farm and have done for centuries.
Somalis in the south have been blocked from exporting our agriculture by western countries purely to keep us in perpetual poverty.
Before the countryβs bloody civil war, which toppled the central government in 1991, Somaliaβs banana industry was the continentβs biggest.
Del Monte pointed out that before the onset of its civil war in the 90s, Somalia was once a main hub for banana exports in Africa to European and Middle East markets, with production reaching its peak in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Infact one of the most productive farming communities you would find between Hargeisa and Harar.
Hargeisa, Borama, Gabiley and Burco etc are all farming settlements that grew into cities and people farm and cultivate various crops in the surrounding country side, but unlike the south and Harar uplands/ Or Erer zone, its primarily subsistence based for the current moment mostly sorghum and maize.
If you want to increase activity it would require some investment. When the Kacaan government invested into the area with better equipments, it grew surpluses
I wouldn't say it's been directly blocked, its been undermined and some of it's owed due the collapse of the the state and conflict, that kept people for sometime producing things outside local consumption.
Before the 91 collapse, Somalia was the biggest exporter of Banana, with extensive banana plantations.
Somaliaβs post-conflict banana harvest revival
Once the countryβs largest industry, banana farmers return to plantations as Somalia conflicts cool off.www.aljazeera.com
Luckily food exports like Banana and Sesame have been picked back up again in recent years. The sesame export is valued at 300 million annually, current our biggest crop export next to lemons.