The population of Somalia is not small in East Africa, at least compared with the southwest region, more than 800,000 square kilometers of land, living close to 700,000 people, and all of them are immigrants.

Of course, the Somali desert area is not small, but it is not the whole of Somalia, the east is dominated by deserts, but the west is dominated by grassland climate, and the Somali region controlled by East Africa is much larger than the territory of Somalia in the previous life.

Although the northern coast was not occupied by East Africa, the western part of the country, which was supposed to belong to Ethiopia, was divided by the Northern Province, Juba Province, and Turkana Province, and part of the former Kenya region was also included in Juba Province, which is also an important reason why the area of Somalia in East Africa is even larger than in previous years.

Although the western savannah climate is better than that of the tropical deserts, the population of Somalia is still mainly located along the oases and rivers in the east.

"By 1880, the northern province had developed more than 600,000 hectares of cultivated land, of which more than seventy percent were tropical plantations opened up in recent years, with a small amount of grain output, but it was not to meet the grain self-sufficiency in the province, mainly to provide food security for the garrison on the northern border at any time, and more grain shortages were transported from the south by sea, but the grain self-sufficiency rate in the province still reached about 60 percent." Rolmann Carlin introduced to the commissioner sent by the central government.

The Northern Province has been able to fully promote the tropical economic plantation industry while maintaining a high rate of food self-sufficiency, thanks to the vast land area and the very sparse population.

Of course, the sparse population here is mainly compared to other countries, after all, Somalia is larger than Germany, with a population of less than 700,000, and there is no human pressure at all.

Traditionally, the area of arable land in Somalia is about 8 million hectares, while the Somali region of East Africa includes parts of Ethiopia and Kenya, so the arable land area is more than 10 million hectares, and there is a large amount of agricultural land suitable for pasture and woodland.

What is this concept, in the previous life, the area of the Western Regions Province of the Far Eastern Empire was twice the area of the two provinces of Somalia in East Africa, that is, about 1.6 million square kilometers, but the arable land area was only more than 7 million hectares.

Of course, in the previous life, the conditions of the Somali state were not much worse than those of the Somali region of East Africa, and its arable land area was more than 8 million hectares, which is still more than that of the Western Regions Province.

Of course, arable land is not equal to arable land, and the developed arable land area of the former Federal Republic of Somalia was only about 1 million square hectares, while the developed arable land area of the Western Regions Province has reached about 4 million hectares.

Not to mention, between the two, the Western Regions Province has completely beaten the Federal Republic of Somalia in terms of yield per acre, and the degree of mechanization has reached more than 80 percent.

Therefore, it is understandable that the Federal Republic of Somalia has been famine every year in the previous life, and even if it is politically stable, it is difficult to get rid of this problem, unless there is a fairly effective centralized unified government to carry out all-round transformation of Somalia, at least the development of water conservancy construction, then the area of cultivated land in Somalia can at least increase several times.

In the East African version of Somalia, the western plateau can even reach more than 500 millimeters, and the mountainous areas can reach more than 1,000 millimeters, which is much stronger than that of the Western Regions Province.

Therefore, the problem of water shortage in Somalia in East Africa is not significant, especially in the case of a small population, although the Shabelle River and the Juba River are seasonal, but there is only one or two months of the whole year There is a risk of interruption, generally around February and March, avoiding this time period can calmly arrange agricultural production work in Somalia.

Therefore, the conditions in Somalia are not as difficult as imagined, and it can even be said that the agricultural economy of East Africa is more developed, which brings a lot of benefits to the East African government every year, and now East Africa is still investing money inland, and Somalia has begun to make money, which is also the most important factor for the East African central government to agree to the "Eurasian Fruit Basket Plan", and it is also the confidence of the Northern Province and Juba Province to implement the plan.

"So in this case, I think the government's immigration quota this year should be increased more for our northern provinces, because even some provinces in the southwest are now established later than us, but their population has surpassed ours, not to mention that now that the 'Eurasian Fruit Basket Plan' is implemented, the number of workers and farmers needs is even greater."

Commissioner Mordleine did not relent, but asked rhetorically: "There should be a lot of workers working on the development of the Shabelle River basin in the Northern Province this year, can you use them first?" ”

The water conservancy construction project in East Africa is a major national project, and the Northern Province is naturally among them, so Mordelane asked questions from this aspect.

"Commissioner Mordleine, I'm afraid you don't know, although the national water conservancy construction project mentions our northern province, but it is only mentioned, you should know this project better than me, it is the people who see it, but in fact, it is biased towards inland provinces and regions, especially the areas where food is the mainstay, what is the number of people allocated by the government to participate in water conservancy construction in Somalia last year, do you know?"

"How much?"

"More than 3,400 people in total!" Rolman Carlin said helplessly.

"That's it?" Mordleine was a little surprised.

"That's it, the national water conservancy construction project is claimed to use millions of laborers, plus other linkage people, the vast majority of the country has to directly or indirectly participate in it, but our northern province has only been divided into more than 3,000 people, is this like a word?" Rolman Carlin complained.

"This is not the most important thing, our province is still very different from the west and the south, so that the population of the whole province is 'black', and it has lost a lot of labor, and now the northern province can achieve today's results, it can be said that it is completely the whole northern province of the whole heart, hard work."

The problem is certainly not as exaggerated as Rolman Kälin suggests, because East Africa itself inherits the legacy of the Gradi Sultanate, including arable land, water facilities, roads, and even buildings left by the local indigenous people.

Therefore, the Somalia inherited by East Africa is not a place of poverty and whiteness, and it has a certain economic foundation in itself, and the Northern Province is only optimizing on this basis.

This is much stronger than many regions in East Africa, such as the first town, as the capital of East Africa, which was established on wasteland, and most of East Africa is undeveloped.

However, the northern provincial government and the immigrants did make a lot of efforts, after all, a lot of arable land in Somalia has to be reopened into plantations, dredging rivers, opening canals, and expanding roads, especially when the population of the northern province is only more than 300,000, and even less than the population of Dar es Salaam.

"Well, that's true, but this can only be done from the immigration, not only in the northern province of the short of people, but also in all parts of the country, and now the immigration market is not as hot as in previous years, but you can rest assured, I will report to the central government and report your problems, Mogadishu is the largest port in East Africa closest to the Eurasian continent, and I think the central government will also focus on it."

(End of chapter)