A 1985 agricultural census in South Yemen recorded 1,475 hectares of qat, a crop confined to a few districts by the south's climate and geography. Qat imports from Ethiopia had supplied Aden and Lahj until the early 1960s, after which domestic production expanded sharply. The government still had qat sales restricted on the books and banned the crop outright in Hadramawt and Al-Mahra. The census is one of the few contemporary measures of the south's qat economy.[1]
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References
- Yemen Times — Revolutionary Yemen and the Issue of Qat (book extract)Qat supplement, part 1: 1985 agricultural census, 1,475 hectares; Ethiopian imports until 1963archived
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