Chapter 957 Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery

After Helveyin listened to Morse's opinions, he asked Morse to formulate an agricultural development strategy for Kampala, which can be regarded as a good phenomenon in the governance of East African countries.

After all, most officials in East Africa are not as experienced and family-inherited as European noble officials, which makes East African officials more dependent on the advice of "experts". The only pity is that there are too few practical experts like Morse.

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In Rhine City, Ernst is also listening to the report of professionals from the Ministry of Agriculture.

"As of 1898, the country's cultivated land area has reached nearly 2.5 billion mu, second only to Tsarist Russia and the United States in the world. In the past eight years, the newly added cultivated land has been mainly in the central and western regions, as well as the southeastern region."

"As the cultivated land has increased, the farmland water conservancy facilities have also increased significantly. More than four million black workers have participated in agricultural production activities. A large number of water conservancy facilities and reservoirs have been newly built. In the past five years alone, the number of newly built reservoirs has reached more than 20,000, greatly improving agricultural production efficiency."

As a country dominated by tropical savanna climate, rainfall distribution in most parts of East Africa is uneven, especially with large seasonal differences, and the construction of water conservancy facilities has greatly improved agricultural production efficiency in East Africa.

The original small fishing boats were indeed not good at fishing, but after installing engines, robbing passing merchant ships can achieve class leapfrogging, so the Somali pirate problem is also a kind of cause and effect reincarnation.

The west coast fishing grounds of East Africa are the fifth largest fishing grounds in the world, and it is also the only fishing ground among the world's five largest fishing grounds that has not been developed on a large scale.

After all, assembly line models produce more parts, have more uniform quality, and are easy to maintain and repair, so they are shaped into "high-end goods."

"The past thirty years have also been a period of great development of my country's forestry resources. The continuous expansion of the territory has enabled us to obtain a continuously expanding forest area, especially the almost inexhaustible forestry resources in the Congo Basin. As for artificial forests, rubber forests are still the main ones."

East African tractor production technology is relatively complete. At the same time, as a key scientific and technological project in East Africa, it mainly gives priority to meeting domestic demand. At present, East Africa is also the country with the most internal combustion engine vehicles such as cars and tractors in the world.

If the transportation conditions in the west are not in place, East Africa will naturally not be able to achieve the vigorous development of the western marine fishing industry, unless it is processed into canned or semi-finished products that can be stored in the cities and factories on the west coast.

The small sampans of Somali fishermen naturally cannot be compared with advanced and professional foreign fishing boats, so foreign fishing boats have been fishing on the coast of Somalia, causing the local fishery resources to be exhausted and fishermen to lose their source of income, thus giving rise to the profession of "pirates" in Somalia.

"In the 1990s, our most important technological progress was the development and popularization of large vehicles and agricultural machinery. In 1898, the number of tractors in the country reached more than 14,000, with the highest penetration rate in the Great Lakes and central regions."

In the absence of water conservancy facilities, the land in most parts of East Africa could only be cultivated once a year. After the construction of new water conservancy facilities such as reservoirs, with water sources guaranteed, many lands in East Africa were upgraded to two crops a year, and a few areas could even harvest three crops a year.

In the past, Somalia was in a civil war, and the government and local warlords were corrupt and incompetent, unable to effectively manage the Somali coast, so the entire Somali coast became a paradise for foreign fishing boats.

At the same time, on the east coast of East Africa, due to the existence of the Somali current, seasonal fishing grounds will be formed, and East Africa is not a country with turbulent political situation like Somalia in the past, so East Africa basically firmly grasps the resource development rights of the Somali coastal fishing grounds.

Of course, the overall management of the East African government and the formulation of unified standards have greatly improved the reliability of parts.

"The above is basically the basic development of the four major industries of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in my country. Generally speaking, East African agriculture is in a period of rapid and stable development."

In terms of policy, the whole country is a chess game. The role of the East African government cannot be ignored. Population growth is the driving force for agricultural investment and expansion in East Africa. The development of the transportation industry is also extremely important, especially for the development and utilization of fishery resources.

The secret of the production advantage of agricultural machinery such as automobiles and tractors in East Africa is assembly line production. Of course, on this basis, Ernst also proposed the concept of the entire industrial chain.

"As for fishery resources, they are also in a rapid development stage, especially the existence of the west coast fishing grounds, which has given East Africa a stable source of marine fishery resources. In the past eight years, East Africa's marine fishing industry has quadrupled. With the development of ships, railways and cold fresh technology, it not only provides a new source of meat for domestic residents, but also brings huge profits through exports to European and American countries."

Before East Africa, the African continent has not been effectively developed for a long time, so it has accumulated a large amount of forestry resources, including a large number of virgin forests in the arid southwest Africa and Somalia. Therefore, at the current stage, the area of ​​deforestation in East Africa is far greater than the area of ​​planting.

And this situation will continue, the area of ​​cities and cultivated land is still on the rise, so the plunder of forests will also be a long-term process.

Of course, East African assembly line models will also be exported with cars produced by these manual factories. The former are generally high-end models, and the latter are low-end models.

Argentina is a major animal husbandry country, and it can even be said to be a strong animal husbandry country in the 19th century. Although Southwest Africa is arid, it also means that there are a lot of grasslands in the area, and the vast land and sparse population are naturally conducive to the development of large ranches. At the same time, with the construction of the Walvis Bay Railway and the Port of Alexandria, it provides a channel for agricultural and animal husbandry products in Southwest Africa to go to sea.

"The livestock industry in East Africa is developing rapidly, especially in high-quality grasslands such as South Africa and Southwest Africa. The main economy in Southwest Africa is livestock industry. At the same time, the development of livestock industry in the western region has also created a certain competitive relationship between us and Argentine agriculture."

However, in addition to industry, the main sources of income in the two places include commerce and service industries, which are not available in the inland cities of East Africa.

The clear division of labor and cooperative development among various factories in East Africa have a huge impact on East Africa's industrial production capacity. Take the automobile assembly plant in New Frankfurt as an example. Many of its internal parts are not produced by the factory, but are provided by other factories.

This is equivalent to doubling East Africa's food production without increasing the area of ​​cultivated land. This shows the outstanding achievements of East Africa's agricultural and water conservancy construction.

Due to the need for confidentiality, these factories are basically located in the central and inland areas, and the coastal areas adopt European and American standards. As a result, the automobile production plants in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa still use the traditional manual assembly model, which is extremely inefficient.

"The driving force behind this rapid and rapid development is mainly the promotion of government policies, the increase in the national population, the development of the transportation industry, etc."

Of course, although the fisheries off the coast of Somalia are rich in resources, they cannot be compared with the fisheries on the west coast. Although East Africa acquired the west coast in a short time, judging from the time when the East African government strongly supported the development of the marine fishing industry, the two were almost carried out at the same time, so The growth rate of the marine fishing industry on the West Coast is much faster than that on the East Coast.

Naturally, the livestock market mainly targets European countries, which has depressed international beef prices to a certain extent. Of course, the development of livestock industry in Southwest Africa started late, so its current influence is also weak.

The application of refrigeration technology on railways has made it possible to eat relatively fresh seafood products in the interior of East Africa, which has expanded the market scope of the marine fishing industry.

In fact, it was only after the East African railway network was basically formed that the East African marine fishing industry entered a stage of rapid development.