"In addition to tropical fruit and vegetable farming, there are more than 1,300 kilometers of coastline along the coast of Northern Province and Juba Province, and the exploitation of our fishery resources accounts for less than 1 percent of the economy, which is a huge waste and should be put on the agenda." Rolman Kalin, a senior official in the Northern Province, told the mayor of Mogadishu.

Exploiting the fishery resources in Somali waters has in fact always been on the minds of Rolmann Kalin, who is a native of the small Austrian coastal city of Monfalcone, so he has a strong sense of belonging to the sea.

Mogadishu Mayor Kranis agrees with this, Mogadishu is a comprehensive port in East Africa, and fishing is one of the important economic sources of Mogadishu City, but in recent years, more resources of Mogadishu Port have been used for foreign trade vessels.

"Mr. Senior Official, the development of fishery resources is indispensable for fishing boats and other necessary facilities, and in this regard, our shortcomings in Mogadishu are very obvious, especially in terms of resources, we may not be naturally suitable for the development of industry." Kranis said.

Mogadishu relies mainly on the Shabelle River for water, but most of the Shabelle River water is used for agricultural irrigation, and Ernst did not intend to develop industry in Somalia from the beginning, and under the status of the Northern Province, a border province, it is even less likely that East Africa will build important industries here, except for agricultural processing industries, which are direct extensions of agriculture.

In addition to the lack of water resources, other resources are scarce in Somalia, such as only about 15 percent of the country's forests, which are mainly found in the mountainous parts of Ethiopia on the border with Turkana province, which is low in East Africa.

It is now the end of the nineteenth century, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, the world's ships are mainly driven by natural wind and manpower, and the materials used for shipbuilding are mainly wood.

Even now, the wooden shipbuilding industry still firmly occupies the main position of the shipbuilding industry, a large amount of steel is more used in warships or stronger shipping companies, and the wooden shipbuilding industry is more concentrated in small and medium-sized ships, and Somalia's forestry resources are obviously unable to support the development of traditional wooden shipbuilding.

The emerging shipbuilding industry, the Somali region is facing the problem of insufficient resources such as coal and iron, which is not to say that Somalia is short of mines, but that it is not worthy of development by the East African government at this stage.

Many parts of Somalia are deserts, and mining development is already facing environmental problems, not because of environmental damage, but because of water scarcity, and the distribution of minerals is not concentrated along the two rivers (Shabelle and Juba) as the population of Somalia.

Of course, the Somali coast can also learn from the experience of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, and import iron ore or coal from the Middle East or India to develop industry, but this goes back to the previous policy restrictions on industrial development in Somalia.

Therefore, if the Somali region wants to solve the problem of industrial development, it can only focus on agriculture and develop the agricultural product processing industry and food industry.

Agriculture also has great development value, for example, the current economy is very prosperous Argentina, its economy depends on agriculture and animal husbandry, with the blessing of British capital, Argentina's railways, industry, etc. have been developed rapidly, and these are around agriculture and animal husbandry and serve it.

In the late 19th century, with the surge in demand for wool in the international market and the development of freezing technology, Argentina's wool, beef, wheat and other agricultural products were exported to Europe and the United States, and the export volume continued to rise, and Argentina became one of the world's major exporters of agricultural products.

In the early 20th century, Argentina had become the world's seventh largest economic power and fifth largest export power, even surpassing the United States in terms of wealth.

In terms of population alone, Argentina was the second largest immigration destination in Europe after the United States during this period of the previous life, and after East Africa, Argentina could only rank third, from 1865 to 1880, the immigrant population was only close to 500,000, and mainly Italy and other countries.

As for the German immigrants in this period, more than 60% of them were basically covered by East Africa, which is mainly the reason why East Africa was unable to absorb most of the immigrant population in the early days, and the economic crisis of 1873 was a turning point, and East Africa unofficially replaced the United States as the world's largest immigration destination, of which German and Chinese immigrants contributed more than 60%.

In other words, Argentina and the United States have at least been cut off by East Africa with millions of immigrant populations, and especially the United States, where at least more than two million potential German immigrants have been digested by East Africa.

However, this does not affect the overall development of Argentina's economy, the foundation of Argentina's economic development is still blessed with unique geographical conditions, is a natural agricultural and animal husbandry power, and its railway development is not much worse than East Africa, at least in terms of density, ahead of East Africa.

The conditions of Somalia are naturally impossible to compare with Argentina, but the irreplaceable geographical advantage is incomparable to Argentina, and in the entire East Africa, it belongs to the first echelon, that is, it is close to the main sea channel of the two world markets in Europe and Asia, and whether there is a Suez Canal or not, it cannot bypass the Somali region.

"Juba Province and Northern Province have a long coastline, and have world-class high-quality natural fisheries, although it cannot be compared with the top world fisheries, but aside from these fishing grounds, the coast of Somalia is firmly in the second echelon, and the coast is rich in all kinds of fish, tuna, mackerel, anchovy, sardines, sharks and other resources are particularly rich, these are God's gifts to us in East Africa, so the development of fishery resources in the Northern Province should be put on the agenda as soon as possible, Mogadishu, as the provincial capital and the largest port city in the Northern Province, must make more efforts, Enrich local industries as much as possible. Romane Carlin said.

Kranis: "We can only say that the city of Mogadishu is doing its best to do this, but the main reason is that there are too many constraints, especially around the 'Eurasian Fruit Basket Project', there are too many tasks to be completed, and the funds and other aspects cannot be effectively guaranteed. ”

Rolman Kälin: "You don't have to worry too much about this, the provincial government is applying with the central government to carry out a new round of investment promotion in Mogadishu, and we will focus on negotiating with the Austrian government to organize Austrian businessmen to visit Mogadishu.

However, now the central government is still discussing, this time the 'Eurasian Fruit Basket Plan' focuses on the construction of related infrastructure, and the improvement of the level of infrastructure I think there should be some attraction to the Austrian businessman group, so you should first complete the infrastructure problems in an orderly manner.

As the saying goes, opportunities are left to those who are prepared, and iron striking needs its own hardness, only when our northern province has been improved in hardware and services, others can see our potential to invest with confidence.

Therefore, in addition to improving the infrastructure of Mogadishu City, the government should give priority to the construction of a harmonious business environment to build confidence for future investors who come to Mogadishu. ”

The central government could not get money, so the provincial governments in the north had to find a way to start with the introduction of foreign investment, and in this regard, the northern industrial zones in East Africa and the three open ports along the coast have already given demonstrations.

Austrian businessmen are particularly keen to invest in the three coastal cities of Dar es Salaam, Mombasa and the Port of New Hamburg, and Mogadishu was only granted the opening last year.

The abundant fishery resources in the Somali sea area are an important bait for Mogadishu to attract foreign investment, which is also related to the problem of commercial channels, and the northern provincial government naturally cannot solve it, and this depends on Austrian capital to complete, and they will expand the relevant market, and the northern province itself has a narrow market, which cannot solve this problem, as for the domestic market, which involves transportation problems.

Somalia relies mainly on two rivers and shipping, so it is horizontally distributed and is not directly connected to the vast inland areas of East Africa, so it cannot compete with the cities of Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, and the port of New Hamburg.

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