{"id":396048,"date":"2019-12-16T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=396048"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:57:20","slug":"somali-turkish-agriculture-expo-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-turkish-agriculture-expo-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali-Turkish agriculture expo kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mogadishu(SONNA)-<\/strong> An exhibition organized by Somalia and Turkey officially kicked off Sunday, attracting hundreds of participants, including business leaders from all sectors of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Among those attending was Turkish Ambassador to Somalia Mehmet Yilmaz, who said he was pleased to participate in the Somali-Turkish Agricultural Expo, the first of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will also be panels at the expo where Turkish and Somali experts will discuss problems regarding agriculture in Somalia and deliberate on possible solutions and cooperation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Somalis eager to get into the lucrative agriculture business thronged the summit, which ends Monday, to learn how they can improve their yields and tap into the international market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome parts of Somalia, like where I come from, are good for farming. I just want to know how I can export my farm produce abroad, and I have been given help here,\u201d Mohamud Osman, a Somali farmer, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we use agriculture to grow Somalia and where do we export what we have?\u201d said businessman Hassan Omar.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Omar spoke to Anadolu Agency on the sidelines of the summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the businesspeople here now are targeting agriculture. We don\u2019t want to be left behind. We will invest heavily. It is the future of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somalia\u2019s Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Sadik Warfa, called for Turkey\u2019s assistance to help Somalia realize its potential in agriculture, which will provide jobs for many youths.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia mostly exports livestock, fish and bananas and also grows corn and sorghum for domestic use. But a lack of security as well as displacement due to war, poor irrigation and transport systems and degraded natural environments have slowed exports over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AA.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)- An exhibition organized by Somalia and Turkey officially kicked off Sunday, attracting hundreds of participants, including business leaders from all sectors of agriculture. Among those attending was Turkish Ambassador to Somalia Mehmet Yilmaz, who said he was pleased to participate in the Somali-Turkish Agricultural Expo, the first of its kind in the country. \u201cThere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-news","9":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396050,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396048\/revisions\/396050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}