African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 956 Expert Advice
As a new city, Rhine City is far stronger than the first town in many fields such as infrastructure construction, functional design, and industrial structure.

As the capital relocation work in East Africa proceeds, a central urban cluster with Rhine City as the core will be formed around Rhine City in the future. Currently, there are many towns around Rhine City, including New Frankfurt City, Kabwe, Lusaka and the Copper Belt.

This is also an important role of Rhine City, which is to fill the gap between the three major economic zones in East Africa in the future.

The eastern and western coastal areas of East Africa are of course not to be mentioned, and the southern Bohemian Province (Zimbabwe) is also the largest heavy industrial area in East Africa, and the city of Rhine is located between these three.

Although Rhine City does not exist, the local economic foundation is not bad, but there is still some gap compared with the above three.

Therefore, the existence of Rhine City fills the key to East Africa's development core and is the center connecting the two oceans and the north and south regions.

Although the North has relatively weak economic strength, it has a large territory and rich oil resources. Moreover, the North borders many other countries and regions. It is of great significance to East Africa's energy and national defense security and should not be underestimated.

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Kampala city.

Kampala is the capital of the Northern Great Lakes Province. It was invested and built by the East African government in 1871. It has now become one of the famous plateau water towns along the Great Lakes, which means that the local agriculture is relatively developed.

At the same time, Kampala is an important city along the northern railway. With the help of the Great Lake, it can directly exchange materials and personnel with Kisumu and other towns along the Great Lake. It is the fourth largest city on the northern railway.

Of course, due to East Africa's positioning of the entire Great Lakes region, the industry here is much worse than that of southern cities. In the entire Great Lakes region, most of the industry is concentrated in Kisumu and Mwanza.

Because of their geographical advantages, both regions were more receptive to industrial and technological transfer from the eastern region in the early stages.

Of course, as the fourth largest city in the Great Lakes region, Kampala is accelerating its development and narrowing the industrial gap between it and other cities.

The opportunities for Kampala's industrial development come from two aspects. One is that the economic development in the region and related areas provides Kampala with markets and raw materials; the other is the transfer of backward industries from the central region to the northern region.

Although they are backward industries in the central region, from a national perspective, these industries transferred to the local area are still relatively advanced.

At least compared with Kisumu, Mwanza and Bujumbura, there is no obvious difference, because East Africa's industry started late, and even the backward industries eliminated in the central region have a history of only 20 to 30 years at most.

The industrial facilities in cities such as Kisumu and Mwanza are about the same level. After all, East Africa's industrial investment in them was relatively early, and a new round of technological and industrial upgrades could not be launched immediately, which means that Kampala's industrial equipment is actually the same as those in these cities.

After all, this round of technological and industrial upgrading is mainly carried out in areas where industry and scientific research are relatively developed or in coastal areas. Inland cities such as Kisumu and Mwanza have not yet received this treatment.

Of course, East Africa's positioning of the Great Lakes region is East Africa's most important agricultural production base, and it has never attached much importance to local industry compared with other regions in East Africa.

Therefore, as the capital of Northern Great Lakes Province, agriculture and related industries still occupy an advantage in Kampala's industrial structure. At this time, the agricultural and forestry departments of Kampala City are discussing the optimization of agricultural construction in the region.

In the town of Kevins in the northeast of Kampala, agricultural meteorologist Morse, after more than ten years of investigation and monitoring, gave an in-depth report on agricultural production safety issues in Kampala and Kampala city government officials.

Moores: "Generally speaking, the increase in forests and vegetation will reduce the annual runoff of rivers. Of course, the impact of forests and other vegetation on climate is relatively complex. Under certain constraints, it may show the opposite effect. However, it is certain that ensuring forests and vegetation under suitable climatic conditions will have more benefits than disadvantages for the overall climate."

"So my opinion is that it is best to ensure that the forests and vegetation in the area remain in their original state, so that problems are less likely to occur. In layman's terms, it means to maintain the local ecological balance as much as possible and transform local agriculture while respecting the laws of nature."

Helvine, director of the Kampala Agricultural Bureau, asked: "Mr. Morse, do you mean that we are detrimental to local agricultural development?"

To Helwein, Morse's words just now sounded like a criticism of the damage to the local ecology caused by agricultural development in East Africa. After all, a large amount of forests and grasslands were indeed destroyed in the process of farmland and water conservancy development, and were replaced by large areas of farmland.

Morse waved his hand and said, "I didn't say that. What I meant was that humans are weak in the face of nature, so the development of our agriculture must be carefully considered, not that local agriculture is disadvantageous."

Seeing the puzzled expressions of Helvine and other East African officials, Morse could only explain: "I won't beat around the bush. My agricultural development plan can be summarized as follows. First, we need to restore the necessary forests or vegetation. As for what is necessary, it depends on local conditions. For example, some areas with less precipitation are not suitable for large-scale development of arable land. Second, we should build more reservoirs or protect local waters. Through my years of research in the local area, the more reservoirs there are, the more beneficial it is to the agricultural development in the region. Of course, we are already on the shore of the Great Lakes, so there is no need to go to great lengths. We can just build relevant water conservancy facilities."

"I mentioned these two points to ensure that the local climate will not change due to excessive agricultural development. If excessive agricultural development leads to soil erosion, reduced precipitation, land desertification and other problems, it will be a devastating blow to the local agricultural ecology that has been established."

"To put it simply, we need to develop local resources appropriately so that we can achieve long-term benefits instead of exhausting the resources."

Under Ernst's influence, East Africa became the region with the richest concentration of environmental ecology scholars in the world, and their knowledge and theoretical levels continued to improve with the development of East Africa and the passage of time.

"Moderation!" This is the key word that Helvine grasped.

Morse: "Yes, the key is moderation. This is most evident in Asia. Let me take the Mesopotamian region in the Middle East as an example. In ancient times, the Mesopotamian region gave birth to relatively mature civilizations such as ancient Babylon. However, as the population increased, the residents of the Mesopotamian region overexploited the area, causing the climate in the basin to become increasingly dry, forests to degenerate, and deserts to swallow up farmland. Many areas are gradually no longer suitable for agricultural production."

Having said that, even though Helvine didn't have much knowledge, he could basically understand it.

There is no way around it. Helveyin is past the best learning age, and he entered the East African government through military merit, so he is extremely dependent on these professionals in regional governance.

This is also the current situation in East African countries. Although East Africa has established a relatively complete education system and cultivated a large number of basic talents, this system has only matured in recent years.

Prior to this, officials of the East African government were mainly low-educated people like Helveyin, and it would take about ten to twenty years for talents with higher education and knowledge levels to replace the East African government.

The current industrial and agricultural development model in East Africa is still relatively rough, so people like Helwein are barely enough. When East Africa's industry and agriculture develop further, more professional personnel will be needed to manage it.

(End of this chapter)