Chapter 115 East African Meteorological Agency

With Mozambique and Angola falling into the hands of East Africa, East Africa's ambitions for both countries have been unconcealed, and various East African government departments and subordinate agencies have begun to be stationed in the two places under the leadership of the Cabinet.

Government agencies such as the Bureau of Meteorology and the Bureau of Land and Resources Survey are leading the way, and the limited data available to East Africa for the two new additions is very scarce.

Although Portugal has colonized for hundreds of years, it is only in the last few years that Angola and Mozambique have been effectively developed.

Wells, director of the East African National Meteorological Service, said: "At present, there are a large number of places in Angola and Mozambique, which are places where there has been no human activity for a long time, and there may even be various deserters during the war, so the personnel working in the two places should be issued and carry weapons, and priority should be given to setting up observation stations in areas developed by the Portuguese, and paying attention to the safety of personnel." ”

During the war, a large number of black soldiers of the Portuguese army took the opportunity to flee, and these black soldiers also carried modern weapons equipped by the Portuguese government, so they were very threatening.

In East Africa, however, the entire territory of Angola has not yet been "cleansed", and the main forces are fighting southward, and at this time there is almost no surplus population except for a few cities and important agricultural areas.

The Portuguese prisoners were mainly concentrated in the eastern port areas, ready to be used for handover to the Portuguese government, provided of course that the Portuguese government offered the bargaining chips that East Africa wanted.

The work of the East African Meteorological Agency, which is to summarize the climatic characteristics of the whole Angola and Mozambique, complete the national climate map, and guide the agricultural production of East Africa, is very important for East Africa.

As an agricultural country, East Africa is the first agrarian and industrial civilization in the history of sub-Saharan Africa.

Agriculture accounts for more than 80 percent of East Africa's economy, and 70 percent of the country's fiscal revenue comes from agricultural income.

This important feature is destined for East Africa to compile its own agricultural calendar, and Africa, as a country with a long and narrow distribution between the north and the south, this characteristic is even more magnified in East Africa.

Countries that span more latitudes tend to have more complex climatic conditions than countries that span more longitudes.

Typical is the Eurasian continent, the spread of civilization is mainly in the same latitude region, suitable for civilization exchanges, and Africa is different, if it is before the industrial age, Africa is very unsuitable for agricultural production, because the climate here is completely different from the Eurasian continent.

The rainy season in East Africa is mainly concentrated in the first half of the year, with the Congo Basin as the center of the whole African continent with the most abundant precipitation, and the rainy season shifts to the north from March to July and to the south after August.

South Africa is the place where the influence of the rain belt is weakened, the vicinity of the Great Lakes region is rainy all year round, and the eastern plains (including Tanzania and Mozambique) are also very rich in precipitation.

The seasonal variation is particularly pronounced in the central part (Zambia, the southern highlands of the Congo), western Angola, and the Nile Basin (South Sudan), with precipitation similar to that of the monsoon climate zones of the Far Eastern Empire.

The rest of the region receives less precipitation, typified in Matabele province (Zimbabwe), but it is very suitable for agriculture, which can be compared to the North China Plain.

On the whole, the precipitation in East Africa is not as good as that of the Far Eastern Empire, but it is more evenly distributed, showing a symmetrical distribution of more in the middle and less in the north and south.

In terms of temperature, East Africa is more balanced, mainly affected by the topography, with high altitudes often being wheat growing areas, while lower altitudes are more suitable for rice cultivation, of course, if precipitation is not sufficient, it is more suitable for growing drought-tolerant crops such as millet.

All in all, East Africa, as the world's largest country after Britain and Russia, is also one of the most suitable regions for agricultural development.

One of the important reasons for the slow development of African civilization under such favorable natural conditions is that African nomadic civilization and hunter-gatherer civilization have natural advantages over agricultural civilization.

African "strong" countries such as the Ndbele Kingdom, the Zulu Kingdom, the Boer Republic, etc., which were eliminated in East Africa, are typical nomadic civilizations.

Only the Great Lakes region developed a relatively "developed" agrarian civilization, but the Great Lakes region, the northern part (South Sudan, Ethiopia) and the former East African coast (including the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the Somali states) were influenced by Arab civilization.

The early Arab civilization was also a typical nomadic civilization, and later turned to a "commercial" civilization, so even the "agrarian" civilization that was eliminated in East Africa was actually only a semi-agrarian, semi-nomadic pseudo-agrarian civilization.

If they did not practice this pseudo-agrarian civilization, they would not be able to cope with the attacks of nomadic civilizations and primitive hunter-gatherer civilizations.

The by-product of nomadic and hunter-gatherer civilizations is that it is easy to produce "warriors", while agricultural civilizations must develop to a certain extent in order to achieve the "explosive" mode and thus achieve confrontation against nomadic civilizations.

The African continent has vast grasslands, flat terrain and abundant wildlife resources, which are especially suitable for the development of nomadic and hunting modes.

Agrarian civilizations, on the other hand, were not developed for a long time, and were easily conquered by nomadic and primitive hunter-gatherer civilizations.

Unlike the colonizers of East Africa and Europe, under the deterrence of guns, they opened up important conditions for the development of agriculture in Africa.

The first is to liquidate and encircle these tribes in Africa, so as to seize land resources, and secondly, to teach African wildlife a lesson with firearms.

Africa's wildlife is one of the major obstacles to the difficult development of African agriculture, and the herds of animal communities are simply not able to withstand the indigenous forces of the original small settlements.

And large empires cannot bypass small settlements and appear out of thin air, so that today the indigenous people have "geniuses" to breed native varieties of agricultural crops, which may be trampled by a large herd of zebras the next day.

The war was not only against the indigenous people of the grasslands, but more importantly, the elimination of large groups of wild animals that have been entangled with the indigenous people of Africa for hundreds of thousands of years.

Nowadays, the wildlife in East Africa has been killed by East Africans, which also provides a safe space for the development of East African agriculture.

To summarize the various factors that did not develop agriculture in Africa, and why the characteristics changed after the arrival of the colonizers, we can actually refer to North America.

Before the North American civilization, it was not suitable for the development of agricultural civilization, and the Indians were actually the most suitable for the development of nomadic civilization and primitive hunter-gatherer civilization in the vast plains of the United States.

The change in North America is the superiority of the Western world in terms of productivity levels, and the forced distribution of this technology throughout North America along with immigrant groups.

What East Africa is doing today is to replicate this model in Africa, of course, Africa is a peculiar continent after all, so it is indispensable to adapt measures to local conditions, and East Africa has tried a lot in this regard.

The National Meteorological Service is tasked with studying the climate of East Africa as a whole, so as to ensure agricultural production in East Africa, and in this regard, East Africa is at the forefront.

The world's first meteorological bureau in modern significance was born in the United Kingdom in the fifties of the 19th century, and the meteorological bureau in East Africa was established later than the United Kingdom and other countries, but its powers and funds, as well as its status in the government, are indeed relatively high.

As a continent that has not yet been fully explored by mankind, Africa's shortcomings are very prominent, and the more lessons to be made up, all of which need to be guaranteed by modern science and technology.

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