Somalia Agricultural Production

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Data is from FAO website and can be found here. Sharing data due to mango fiasco and to show somalia doesn't produce anywhere near enough to feed country. We import because of this. World food program report I saw from 2011 estimated 60% of food in somalia is imported

FAOSTAT

www.fao.org

 

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Sorghum production is mainly done by smallholder farmers and is carried out in dryland areas. Sorghum is more drought tolerant than maize and is grown predominantly in the Bay Region, south-central Somalia between the Juba and Shebelle rivers, Somalia’s largest rivers.

 

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Maize is typically grown on irrigated land, often by small- and medium-sized farmers. These landholders often employ family labour to manage their land. The major maize growing areas are along the Shebelle and Juba rivers.

 

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The combination of increased domestic food demand (driven by rapid population growth and urbanization and largely supported by remittances) and the collapse of domestic crop production has led to a massive increase in food imports. Agricultural imports rose by a factor of 18, reaching almost $1.5 billion in 2015, up from an annual average of only about $82 million in the late 1980s. Even before the current drought, food aid and food imports were already larger than domestic production of grains. Imports of khat have also risen, with deleterious effects on health, family life, and productivity.

Somalia faces a chronic food crop deficit, as local production meets only 22 percent of per capita cereal needs. Even in the best agricultural seasons, domestic production provides only about 40–50 percent of per capita cereal needs.

 

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In the prewar period, the second-largest export item by value was fruit, mostly bananas, shipped mostly to Italy (Somalia also exported grapefruit and papaya). In recent years, fruit exports were limited to some small test shipments of bananas to Gulf countries. Total vegetable and fruit exports, which include dry lemon exports (which began in about 2009), are only about 20 perc

 

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Not only has most infrastructre falling to ruin since war. But also have insecurity with al shabab war. On top of that many years of natural disaster and you have perfect recipe for disaster

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/781281522164647812/pdf/124651-REVISED-Somalia-CEM-Agriculture-Report-Main-Report-Revised-July-2018.pdf

 

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The south and lands bordering rivers are key to somalia food security but also have most issues. The stable north/north west doesnt have soil or rain to carry weight.

 

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Will do some more digging but believe livestock population is higher today than anytime in somalia history