Liberalized labour conditions made Somalia food self-sufficient by 1943
Evidence
However, gradually, after the employment conditions of the former régime had been liberalized, an adequate labour force was forthcoming and the plantations were encouraged to concentrate on the production of sugar and grain to meet the territory’s local needs. Capital loans and tractor fuel were made available to Italian farmers. Encouragement was also given to local Somali cultivators; and by 1943 Somalia was self-supporting in primary foodstuffs, although further serious food shortages occurred from time to time. Somalis and Arabs were also encouraged to participate in trade and commerce more fully than had previously been possible under the discriminatory legislation of the past. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 325
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonial labour schemes restructured Somali social organization by tribe and origin
Related
- Colonial labour schemes restructured Somali social organization by tribe and origin (similarity 0.78)