AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK
Rain in Mudug is good for the pastoralists, bad for the market traders
The fortunes of traders depending on their living from the livestock markets of southern Galkayo have crashed in recent weeks,...
New grass offers hope for livestock herders in Somaliland
A new type of grass introduced to agro-pastoralists in Somaliland is showing signs of success as a way of keeping...
SANAG HERDER FEEDS MAIZE TO HIS FAMILY AND LAST REMAINING GOATS
(ERGO) - Mohamud Hassan Mohamud, 62, has been buying maize and water for the last three months to feed his herd...
POOR SALES AT JOWHAR’S LIVESTOCK MARKET
(ERGO) - Ali Hassan Idow, a pastoralist in southern Somalia's Middle Shabelle, took his seven cows back home from the market...
BAKOOL HERDERS SELLING OFF LIVESTOCK AT GIVE AWAY PRICES
(ERGO) - Mohamud Abdi Hussein, 70, started selling off his last remaining 25 goats this week at rock bottom prices in...
LAND GIVES INDEPENDENCE TO DISABLED FARMERS IN BAIDOA
(ERGO) - A vegetable farm owned and run by a co-operative of disabled people on the outskirts of the southern Somali...
WILD ANIMALS BESET FLOOD-AFFECTED BELETWEYNE FARMERS
(ERGO) - Farah Ibrahim Hassan, 48, has lost everything he planted on his three hectare farm in Gabarlawe village near Beletweyne...
SOOL HERDERS WORRIED ABOUT SHEEP DEATHS
(ERGO) - Somali pastoralists in remote rural parts of northern Sool region say their sheep are dying from an unidentified disease...
DROUGHT REDUCES PUNTLAND’S LIVESTOCK EXPORTS
(ERGO) - The drought in northeastern Somalia’s Puntland regions has reduced the number of animals exported to Saudi Arabia and other...
SOMALI HERDERS IN GEDO WELCOME CAMPAIGN TO TREAT SICK GOATS
(ERGO) - A local veterinary association has treated 110,000 goats for Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP) in Bardera in southern Somalia's Gedo...
