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I was checking some papers about a plot of land we own (an empty farmland) and it doesn't say the units. It says: "...qiyaasteeddu tahay **** dhererka ah iyo ballaca oo furan..."

what is this unit in

anyone?

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:anyone?

meter unit ayey isticmaalaan dhererku intaa le eg yahay wa in meter baladhkuna intaa le eg yahay


mar convert meter to which ever unit u understand

marka ma meter squared baa? usually beeraha are measured in hectares (1 hectare waa 100 meter squared) ama acres.

Probably Her Majesty's imperial units. The orphans always want to please great mother in London.

It is measured in metres or in feet

In the south they use a measurement known as Aseendo which likely comes from some Italian term, I don't know what it means, I'm guessing its used to measure a set of acres or hectares or square footage.

Monk how much is a reasonable sized farm (preferrably in hectares)?

Half a hectare feeds a family of eight, so if you wanted something to live off of plus surplus to make a living I'd say 5-10 hectares will give you a comfortable life - largely depending on where you live. 5-10 hectares will be easy to live on in the south but where you're from 5-10 hectares will be hell to manage.

OK thx, our 'farm' is about 1.7 hectares so I would say it is managable. About your farm(s) in jamaame, how big are they and what do you grow?

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:OK thx, our 'farm' is about 1.7 hectares so I would say it is managable. About your farm(s) in jamaame, how big are they and what do you grow?

1.7 hectares sounds like a hobby farm. You could probably build 30 houses on that land, it would be worth more as a residential lot than a farm.

My farm in Jamaame is in the range of 600 to 700 hectares in total. 30% of it is co-owned between my dad, his brother and a partner, but my uncle is dead and the other guy ran away so my dad owns that whole thing for now, its about 200 hectares. Another 30% was my grandfather's farm, its located near the coast in a less desirable and less fertile location but its still prime land and its shared between my dad and his brothers & their offspring, also 200 hectares. The rest is land my dad purchased in the 80s and that's 240 hectares. We grow everything; sesame, watermelon, corn, bananas, mangoes, and most prized is our limes which we are trying to heavily push. The best thing about the place is there's so much rain that all the crops were recycling themselves.

Yeah we're not serious in producing largescale produce it's mainly for a hobby.

Wow 700 hectares is a lot, that's almost the size of central park. I'm suprised it survived land grabbing of civil war. Can you locate this farm on google earth or wikimapia, I'm interested in farms in the south.

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Yeah we're not serious in producing largescale produce it's mainly for a hobby.

Wow 700 hectares is a lot, that's almost the size of central park. I'm suprised it survived land grabbing of civil war. Can you locate this farm on google earth or wikimapia, I'm interested in farms in the south.

I can locate my grandfathers farm but its just red colored soil with high rainfall, looks ugly. The rest of my dad's personal farm sits on the Jubba river I'm just not sure where specifically though but its quite a bit outside the town. If you open google maps and go to Jamaame - its right on the river, just follow the river south or north, if you go north the map is in high resolution and you can see a bunch of developed plots around the river, at least one of those belongs to someone in the family or at the least it should give you an idea of what we're working with. There's also a bunch of lakes and reservoirs in the area.

Edit, I re-read the paper and it says: 1700 in length and width (assuming it's meters), I assumed it was 1700m2 (square meters). That would mean it is 2890000m2 or 2390km2 and 1 hectare = 100m2, therefore 2890000/10000 = 289 hectares

289 hectares is huge, but wouldn't you need a crazy amount of money to properly cultivate that kind of dry northern land? In rainy places like Europe/US/South Somalia 80% of agriculture depends on rain, 20% on irrigation, I imagine a place like Waqoyi would need a lot of irrigation including expensive deep-drilling.