Somaliland:How a mild stimulant generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year

JSL3000 · Post by **JSL3000** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:24 am

blood wrote:yes,i agree,but khat needs to be deal delicately and might be in the future grow our own khat.

You don't want to do that Yemen has always grown it's khat and there nation water about run out in near future they depleted all reservoirs khat farmd consumes a lot of water.

Strategic · Post by **Strategic** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:33 am

then we need to ban khat period.

JSL3000 · Post by **JSL3000** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:40 am

Yemen is known as khat nation they rather plant khat than plant food they are running out of water and oil and war never end it's tragic.
https://youtu.be/gI3o1HGaE6Q

JSL3000 · Post by **JSL3000** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:45 am

You don't want end up like Yemen.

In a little over a decade, Sana’a, Yemen, may become the world’s first capital to run out of water. Failed governance and environmental mismanagement share some of the blame for drying up the city. But there is also a more surprising culprit: a national addiction to qat, a narcotic that is incredibly water-intensive to cultivate.

If current trends continue, by 2025 the city’s projected 4.2 million inhabitants will become water refugees, forced to flee their barren home for wetter lands. In preparation, some officials have already considered relocating the capital to the coast. Others have proposed focusing on desalination and conservation to buy time... The cultivation of qat, a mild narcotic plant that releases a stimulant when chewed, accounts for up to 40 percent of the water drawn from the Sana’a Basin each year, and that figure is rising. That is both because qat takes a lot of water to farm (much more than coffee, another plant that does well in Yemen’s fertile soil) and because cultivation of it.

Strategic · Post by **Strategic** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:51 am

the water in yemen has to do with the influx of yemeni refugee,i think they have a plan to populate the somali peninsula with these tribal yemenis.

LiquidHYDROGEN · Post by **LiquidHYDROGEN** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:35 am

If the $500 million every year that leaves SL because of Qat actually went into Somali pockets I wouldn't have such a huge problem with it. Lakiin, we spend half a billion every year on that cursed caleen and every penny goes to Ethiopia.

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