Chapter 1409 Sardinidad Plain
In East Africa's 55th Five-Year Plan, agriculture focuses on the utilization of water resources and land governance, because these two are large-scale agricultural projects covering the country, and each place has basically relevant needs.
Therefore, it must be noted that in areas such as the Great Lakes region where water sources are abundant, the focus direction of water-saving agriculture is also different. At the same time, water resource management and land management are closely linked in the rice cultivation area of the Great Lakes region.
The Great Lakes District attaches more importance to drainage work, which is manifested in the fact that agricultural irrigation tools are more complex and detailed, so as to achieve the survival of water resources and improve utilization efficiency. At the same time, a developed ditches network is built to guide water to where it should go.
Regarding the direction of the Great Lakes water flow, in addition to going downstream along the Nile River, the East African government also has a key engineering project in Beida Lake Province. Of course, this water conservancy project actually involves two provinces, namely Beida Lake Province and Turkana Province, but overall Turkana Province is the beneficiary.
Ernst asked: "Now, how about the water diversion project in your province, that is, the western water diversion project from the Great Lakes to the Sardindida Plain?"
The Sardindida Plain is the plain area between the East African Plateau and the Ethiopian Plateau. Lake Turkana is located on this plain, and to the east is the Benadir Plain.
Of course, these plains are generally not very famous. People prefer to judge desert landforms when dividing these areas. For example, the Benadir Plain, which East Africans generally like to call the Somalia Desert area, or the Northeast Desert area.
The climate of the Sardindida Plain is basically the same as that of Somalia, so in order to strengthen local development and utilization, there are three important water diversion projects in East Africa.
Of course, it can also be regarded as two. Among them, the project of diversion from the East African Plateau into the Sardindida Plain is divided into the East Line and the West Line, so it can be regarded as two independent diversion projects.
The last one is to divert water from the Ethiopian Plateau into the Sardindida Plain, which can also be called the Sardindida Plain Water Diversion North Line Project.
The purpose of these three-line water diversion projects is to solve the agricultural, production and domestic water problems in the Sardindida Plain, and the beneficiaries are all Turkana Province.
Whether it is the East African Plateau or the Ethiopian Plateau, they all have a name in their previous lives, that is, "African Water Tower".
There is no need to say much about the East African Plateau. It has the richest freshwater reserves in the entire Africa and has nurtured a famous East African Plateau lake group.
The Ethiopian Plateau is also rich in precipitation. It is the source of important rivers in East Africa such as the Nile River, Juba River, and Sheber River, as well as Lake Turkana, the fourth largest lake in East Africa. There is also a large lake of Lake Tana on the Ethiopian Plateau within the Abyssinian Empire.
Therefore, making good use of the water resources of the East African Plateau and the Ethiopian Plateau can further expand the livable areas of East Africa and alleviate the problem of regional water resources.
The Western Front Project involving Beida Lake Province is to lead part of the Nile River water into the desert area southwest of Lake Turkana.
At present, the East African government's main development projects for the Sardindida Plain water diversion project are not only meeting the industrial and domestic water use in Turkana Province, but also expanding the country's cotton planting area and building it into an important cotton production base in East Africa.
Therefore, when it comes to the construction progress of this project, Manfred said: "Your Majesty, the progress of our province has basically been completed regarding the Western Water Diversion Project of the Sardindida Plain. However, the progress of the Turkana Province is relatively slow, and it is expected that the entire line will be completed in two years."
The reason for this result is that the construction capacity of Turkana Province is much worse than that of Beidahu Province. Although Beidahu Province is an agricultural province, its industrial scale is still considerable. After all, the population is here, and the population has corresponding market demand.
What's more, the agricultural province itself has more experience in water conservancy construction, so it is reasonable that Beidahu Province can complete the progress of work within the province in advance.
Ernst was quite satisfied with the explanation of senior Manfred. He said: "In the northern region, due to the limitations of population, economic and industrial capacity, the development of engineering projects is more difficult than other regions. Therefore, as an important province close to the north, your province should play a leading role and cooperate with the national principles and policies, and should not have a narrow mind."
Ernst emphasized so much because of the Sardindida Plain Water Diversion Project, this large-scale water conservancy project, actually has extremely limited effect on the Beida Lake Province.
In the Sardindida Plain water diversion project, except for the Northern Line project being entirely undertaken by Turkana Province itself, in the Eastern Line and Western Lines, Prussia (western Kenya) and North Lake Province are both parties who pay more and do not have much profit.
This thankless project is placed in areas with relatively autonomous regions in Europe and the United States. It is undoubtedly difficult to coordinate such projects.
Ernst continued: "Only when the northern economy develops, the upper limit of the Great Lakes region can be increased accordingly. After all, the Great Lakes region is located in the inland area, and the surrounding area is equivalent to your economic hinterland. So you seem to be at a disadvantage now, but you are adding fuel to your future development."
Manfred nodded in agreement with His Majesty the Emperor, and said, "Our Beida Lake Province also understands this. As a province in the Great Lakes region, we are relatively poor in the whole country, especially away from the ocean."
"So, inland and surrounding trade is the only way out for the Great Lakes region, to make up for the shortcomings of our non-coastal provinces as much as possible. The main learning goal of our province is to become an important inland trade, transportation and exchange node similar to the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Germany."
Although both Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany both have sea outlets, in terms of the economic distribution of the two countries, they belong to relatively developed inland economies, and one of the important factors that they can do this is that the economic levels of Germany and the surrounding countries of Austro-Hungarian Empire are not bad.
Therefore, only when the regional environment is good can the upper limit of economic development of Beida Lake Province be further enhanced and become an economically strong province in East Africa.
Ernst nodded and said, "You seem to be at a disadvantage in the Sardindida Plain Water Diversion Project, but in the long run, it is also of great significance to you."
"Take the large number of cotton and other crops planted along the water diversion project for example. There is no doubt that the processing of these basic agricultural products will inevitably feed back to the textile industry and other industries in Beidahu Province, further reducing the raw material costs for the development of your textile industry and providing better raw materials."
"In this way, Turkana Province can obtain income by growing more crops, and you can also obtain more raw materials and markets." As for Turkana Province, it is impossible to develop large-scale industries, so if the agriculture in Turkana Province is developed, the Beida Lake Province will eventually become a beneficiary.
There are many reasons why Turkana Province will not develop industry on a large scale. For example, in terms of climate, the Sardindida Plain area of Turkana Province is inherently deficient. If the factory is built here, additional cooling facilities must be built, and the factory is placed in the nearby Great Lakes area, and even fans do not need to be installed.
After all, the annual average temperature in the Great Lakes region is only in the early 20 degrees, and workers will not be affected too much at this temperature, while the temperature in the Sardindida Plain may reach more than 30 degrees, or even more than 40 degrees. After all, a large part of the Sardindida Plain is desert and semi-arid grassland.
In addition, even the water sources in the Sardindida Plain are introduced from the outside, and the development of industry itself requires a large amount of water. In contrast, the water sources in the Great Lakes region are sufficiently guaranteed and can be exported outward.
Of course, more importantly, the industry is deployed in the Great Lakes region, and the sewage discharged by the industry can be flowed through the Nile River to Egypt, while the Sardindida Plain in Turkana Province does not have an outward river. If an industry is built locally, the land of East Africa will eventually be polluted, and due to the terrain, these pollutions will be highly concentrated.
The most typical one is Lake Turkana, which is the upper reaches of it, the Omo River, which is an inward river. The Omo River originates from the southern part of the Ethiopian Plateau. After entering the Sardindida Plain, it eventually injects into Lake Turkana, not the ocean.
Therefore, theoretically, Lake Turkana can be regarded as the "Lop Nur" in East Africa, and the Omo River can be regarded as the "Tarim River".
However, the Sardindida Plain is not the Tarim Basin, and its east is connected to the lower average altitude of the Benadir Plain, but due to the desert and arid climate, even if the terrain is not hindered, natural rivers injected into the Indian Ocean have not developed.
This is somewhat similar. In the Nile Province in East Africa, the intersection of the Nile Basin and the Sudan region of Egypt, the water in the upper reaches of the Nile River was originally good, but a large part of these river water was evaporated in East Africa, and a large part would be swallowed by the desert to replenish groundwater.
And this is also why the Blue Nile, which originated from the Abyssinian Empire, is so important to Egypt.
The Omo River clearly has a water volume, as well as the low-lying terrain downstream and the dry and hot climate, which is not enough to support its development into a large river and eventually inject into the Indian Ocean.
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The water diversion project of Sardindida Plain in East Africa will obviously also be depleted in the middle. However, the main purpose of these water diversion projects is to develop agriculture and animal husbandry. At its end, there is basically no water remaining, forming an inflow lake similar to Lake Turkana.
Of course, the East African government's intention is not only that. In addition to economic interests, these water diversion projects also shoulder the role of transforming regional ecology.
The biggest victim of this project is actually Egypt, because a large part of the water source in the Sardindida Plain water diversion project comes from the Great Lakes region of the East African Plateau, and the lower reaches of the Great Lakes region is the Nile River. East Africa introduces these rivers into the Turkana province, which means that the amount of water flowing into Egypt will become less.
However, if you die, Ernst is very happy to see the reduction in the Nile River water volume in Egypt.
After all, we should know that today's Egypt, including the Sudan region, has a combined population of nearly 150 million in previous lives, which is a very terrible number.
Of course, the more important reason is that Egypt is a typical Arab country, and Ernst does not want to be neighbors with more than 100 million Arabs, which can easily cause "greening" in northern East Africa.
After all, Egypt is similar to Mexico to the United States. However, the good news is that the natural environment barrier between Egypt and East Africa is worse than the junction of the United States and Mexico.
In addition, Egyptians can also go to Europe to make a living. "Remittance" in Egypt's national fiscal revenue in previous lives was an important project.
This group that created "remittance" can actually be regarded as migrant workers in the Far East Empire, but the Egyptians had to go abroad to work, and the destinations to go abroad were developed countries in Europe, or oil-rich countries in the Middle East.
Compared with Egypt, East Africa is undoubtedly a "developed" country, and the two countries are also land neighbors, so Ernst is worried that the Egyptians will learn from Latin Americans to smuggle into the United States and will smuggle into East Africa on a large scale in the future. This worry is not unreasonable.
You should know that a country as large as East Africa has a population of less than 200 million, and it may only remain at the level of hundreds of millions in the future. Therefore, facing Egypt, a "poor" neighbor, and this neighbor still has many unacceptable "bad habits", at least Ernst cannot accept it psychologically.
Therefore, reducing Egypt's population carrying capacity is a very good way in Ernst's opinion. Egypt's population growth model in his previous life can be said to be too exaggerated, and there are two main reasons for this population growth, one is religion and the other is the big cake policy.
The former allows the Egyptians to grow wildly and unscrupulously in their ideological aspects, which is the norm in many Arab countries, while the latter is the government guarantee, and the cheap pie gives Egypt's "confidence" in life.
However, looking at the small countries along the Persian Gulf coast in the early 20th century, Qatar, Pirate Coast, and Bahrain, their population could not be expanded until oil was discovered because of the harsh climate.
The interception of more Nile water from East Africa will obviously make Egypt's survival worse in the future, but this is obviously not enough. Ernst has a more vicious plan, which is to help the Abyssinian Empire build dams on the Blue Nile in advance.
The Abyssinian Empire is no matter how it is said to be a Christian country. In recent years, it has rapidly become East African in culture, so the differences between East Africa and East Africa are getting smaller and smaller. Therefore, compared with Egypt, a country that is "unchangeable", Ernst is not worried about the future population growth of the Abyssinian Empire.
Of course, being difficult to change does not mean that it cannot be changed, but waste from imperialist countries such as East Africa or Europe and the United States basically cannot do this, but letting the Labor Party do it may have miraculous results.
If Egypt can become a red country like Russia, then the population growth rate may be reduced in the future. The Russian-style Labor Party has a good deal of dealing with religion, and it will be popularized on a large scale and develop industry. Therefore, judging from the situation in previous lives, the fertility rate in the Labor Party countries is generally not high.
(This chapter ends)