Mandera/Beled-Xaawo farm lands & river Dawa -video

[XimanJaale]

Nice to see that Reer Mandera and Reer Beled-Xaawo are utilising this river. Looking at google maps, I can see from both side of the borders that farm land is increasing. But compared to Beled-Xaawo, it is Reer Doolow that utilise more with Dawa river.

[Substance]

The land of two rivers.

[original dervish]

[XimanJaale]

Some NGO provides some water pump motors to villages under Mandera district, Kenya and Doolow district, Somalia. Self-sufficient and utilising our blessed land is important to flourish our population and civilisation.

[Substance]

Ximan:

Altough those industrial agriculture methods have a place, to provide income, and lift people out of poverty I think we should diversify our methods. For self sufficiency, permaculture is one good method. There are many good spots in gedo, but doolow or beledxawo or Luuq suits me and recently FAO organisation have provided boats and equiment for fishing to internally displaced people in doolow and now people are fishing in those two rivers and people are starting to eat fish, very unusual for somalis before.

Doolow looks very nice.

[XimanJaale]

Interesting to see that people are being taught to fish. Did the guy just say the rivers can provide a thousand tons of fish a year? That is very profitable


For Northern Gedo, yes Luuq, Doolow and Beled-Xaawo are a hotspot, however the biggest and most productive farm lands are based in Central and Southern parts of the river Jubba, towns like Baardheere is a prime. Also prominent villages near both the rivers like Uunsi, Serinley, Faanweyn should be invested in order for the majority pastoralist Gedonians to made into agro-pastoralist.

These charities from NGO's are short-term investment, what we Gedonians need is heavy investment from business people and countries. Gedo can be resourceful region let it be livestock, fishing or farming.

[Substance]

Couldn't agree more.

[thegoodshepherd]

Inshallah I will one day have a coconut farm between Dolow iyo Luuq Ganaane

[QaxootiWaaxid]

why de fok they dont eat fish and they live on river

[Substance]

Inshallah I will one day have a coconut farm between Dolow iyo Luuq Ganaane

What kind of coconut? Or is just one species? I Want to bring palms in aswell.

[XimanJaale]

why de fok they dont eat fish and they live on river

Because Somali pastoral's they frown upon fish but also chicken! Whereas coastal Somalis eat and see fish as normal delicacy.

There are three type of Somalis and they have their unique outlook on life:

1. Agriculturalist
2. Pastoralist
3. Coastal dwellers

[thegoodshepherd]

Inshallah I will one day have a coconut farm between Dolow iyo Luuq Ganaane

What kind of coconut? Or is just one species? I Want to bring palms in aswell.

Yeah there is only one species of coconut. It used to be everywhere in Gedo.
In Somali it is called Baar, like in Baar-Dheer the city. It is also called qoombey in Somali.
Gedo has the perfect climate and soil for coconut farming.

[QaxootiWaaxid]

why de fok they dont eat fish and they live on river

Because Somali pastoral's they frown upon fish but also chicken! Whereas coastal Somalis eat and see fish as normal delicacy.

There are three type of Somalis and they have their unique outlook on life:

1. Agriculturalist
2. Pastoralist
3. Coastal dwellers

its stupid

[Substance]

Yeah there is only one species of coconut. It used to be everywhere in Gedo.
In Somali it is called Baar, like in Baar-Dheer the city. It is also called qoombey in Somali.
Gedo has the perfect climate and soil for coconut farming.

We need to reverse that process.

[Chinaman]

I seriously hope at least in the case of Mandera that those are Somali farmers farming those places and not Kikuyu and other Balaayo being Moved there. We know what has happened to the Coast region of Kenya. The Native and partly mixed True Swahili Coastal people's land is today Majority Kikuyu and other inner Bantu tribes....this is partly why some were supporting Al-Shabaab in Lamu recently.