After the nth discussion with old papa he told me about the official sizing of his & his father's farms by previous administrations, totaling 600 hectares, or 6km squared of arable farmland, this is just what's on paper alone and doesn't include his grandfather's farms which are a bit more distant from the main farms and owned informally and they lack a direct water source.
6km squared total, 60% of it sits directly on a river source and the rest is no more than a few hundred feet from the river. 6km squared is a little over 4x the size of Monaco and over 10x the size of Vatican city. For a scale of size, you can google Gibraltar which is roughly 6km squared and it should be right.
This article I posted earlier has one of my farm's featured (at least the area) out of about 4 total farms, you can see what the area looks like.
http://www.hiiraan.com/news/2010/Jun/wa ... -10154.htm
$$$ is on my horizon.
----If you were implying that Siad Barre airlifted my family, then.....no, I'm afraid he didn't. 
