becomes isn't loses a significant proportion of its crops to parasites every year the whole time you op is helping farmers to identify the crops being attacked allowing farmers to take action faster. while the concerns will have about still come to just about so full that news at the top of the office of the. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the book. rico is in germany to learn german why not come with them simple online on your mobile and free to satisfy d w z learning course nikos speak german made easy. to get. the good news from bad. seed seem.

good luck modestly. good show good submissive. good. and respect. the tug. taken on the growth in somalia is likely to inch up this year thanks to economic reform that led to increased tax collection but the international monetary fund warns that growth is. also on the show you're young and live in the city do you really need to own a car our reporter goes to the bank of motor show to see if you can be persuaded. so far but it is just a trial run in tamarind a soon to new app could help african farmers identify plops diseases or it's too

late. but come to the business africa i want to johnsonville and good to have you with us i was starting with some upbeat news the world bank says the somalian economy will grow by almost 3 percent this year that's a red chink of light for the country in the horn of africa which has been beset by problems that go far beyond the economy over the past decade. the dry wind swept plans of somalia have seen their fair share of turmoil over the last decade. drought in 2011 led to a disastrous famine in which millions of people faced starvation and illness such as cholera. another drought and famine followed in 2017. added to that the somali civil war has raged since 2009 that conflict has seen the al qaeda backed terrorist group al-shabaab wreaked havoc in the country with a series of bombings and attacks against such

a backdrop achieving meaning for economic growth has been hugely difficult for the country's weak un backed government. nonetheless the world bank's latest report brings some hope that the country is achieving some kind of economic stability. it expects growth to reach 3.5 percent in somalia in the medium term however the i.m.f. warned earlier this year that while somalia's economy is on the right track it remains vulnerable due to poverty climate change and terrorism. of a more let's bring in our correspondent and i have a the joy the reindeer our joy what are the main factors that to generate growth in somalia right now so money at today's boosted by remittances from outside and also earlier there is by somalis who live in the diaspora who actually are estimated to send it to somalia above won't we $3000000000.00 u.s. dollars and then the other factor is every culture which accounts for the mainstay

in terms of gross domestic product we also have life stock that is the other group fucked up for the country and as serious as well do contribute as well to girls in somalia at the moment but the resteal a lot that needs to be done to bring it out of these 2.9 percent growth rate that it has at the moment so what are the challenges along the way because the i.m.f. 70 wants that the recovery that we see right now is fragile. very fragile indeed but we have a bit of hope the main challenge we see at the moment in somalia according to what experts like the world bank and i am every saying is the security of course somalia for a sunni decade has been brought down by al shabaab which is the militia terrorist group in the country and among other smaller terrorist groups as well and he says

attacked the opportunity for growth and it's also the sure drought that has affected the country for the longest time and the education levels as well for somalis who come up to about 15500000 a very low literacy levels a solo to help boost the economy to the levels that it should be absolute there is going to be need to vest in human capital invest in education and infrastructure as well to create jobs for people let's hope of out the growth rate because a breath rate of $32.00 in the mid-term 3 and a half percent would be fantastic for a country like germany but what kind of growth rate is necessary for somalia to actually move from that least developed economies standard right now to a developing economy. it didn't take more than just looking at percentages force a lawyer to grow or out of the current situation that it is in and the law says that it would need about 3.5 percent growth in the for maybe the next 5 or 7

years for it to finally come out and be mocked and while the developing countries but i think it's going to take more than that investing in a good tax administration and also having them to restructure the economy as well what we're seeing right now is that recurrent expenditure calls for a huge chunk of the spending of the country and most of this expenditure goes into security that leaves them with about 33 percent of capital spending and not much that is known were economic development as well right so that has to be a shift when it comes to the actual spending there and joy to reign here in nairobi thank you. commercial carry a ethiopian airlines has recorded a jump in profits despite a deadly crash earlier this year profits at africa's largest airline up 18 percent for the year to june according to the company c l c n n has recorded as significant

increase in passenger numbers for the year despite a 77 max which crashed in march killing 157 people the company which is awaiting delivery of 25 new planes is worried a global economic slowdown could result in a drop in congo. and i just one of the other business stories making news. chinese factory set prices dropped in august the biggest pace in 3 years spaces have slashed prices to cope with flagging demand amid a global slowdown and a trade dispute with the united states and unibus prompted investors to sell of riskier technology stocks breaking a week long winning streak on the beijing exchange. hong kong a stock exchange is more than $36000000000.00 for the london stock exchange the proposal envisions a single bourse joining the europe with asia that it said would redefine global capital markets for decades to come. i wanted to

own a car that is a growing question in big cities where public transportation unrighteous ops often widespread sent where young people typically are more concerned about their carbon footprint we sent one such cost skeptic our own mother over to the frankfurt most a show to see if he could be convinced to get behind the wheel. of almost 30 and i've never owned a car and why would i. living in berlin means i can get anywhere pretty much any time by bus or train. and if i do need a car i can just rent one through car sharing service i'm perfectly fine without my own car. i'm going along with this only one 3rd of young german city dwellers say a car is important to them and i'm wondering what is the car industry going to do about that. well what better place to find out than at a boat

a show at the i.a.e.a. in frankfurt a major car companies from all over the world a showcasing their latest models one of them is opal the brand my parents have driven since i was a kid trying to reach young urban customers with the course eat a new electrically powered version of an old classic. and. when you see on show when i look at you i think that driving enjoyment is something that can get you excited electric cars are a lot of fun and if you go to the bakery or the butcher or wherever and you don't emit any c o 2 and that's very appealing to the sardines in this endless understood . ok that does sound nice but not 30000 euro most if you ask me even a so-called you can plop as a dos in the car. but why are comical struggling to win over people like me i meet up with a market analyst and ask him. people tend not to have drives anymore. that you know

them i have an apartment in my i have a shared carriage you know but i think it's that that sort of idea of having the pradhan joy parked on your drive is becoming less appealing and less relevancy on people and that is a difficult conundrum for the car makers to to to work out. how many cars are trying to adapt to what young people want smart which belongs to misstate is for example developed an app through which you can share your own car with friends and family but again that alone is not really going to sway me into spending 20000 euros on a car that i really don't need. the american. young women are just that young people when a car isn't available once they've taken on certain obligations and they start asking themselves which car and could make sense for me if i could come to condon's in my confirmation. maybe i will get to that stage one day but for the moment i'll remain colace and maybe that is for the best. for.

the world population is growing already food is scarce in some regions and often crops on to other plants fall victim to parasites especially in africa where plants passed destroy up to 50 percent of the harvest now a new app aims to help identify plants deceases the for it's to meet. this is not the harvest they've been hoping for these farmers in cameroon have discovered that their tomatoes have been ravaged by a disease. they just don't know what it is never going to be some of this you imagine investing a lot of money in your farm only to return to your crop one day and find that the fruits are bad the tomatoes have been affected by a disease you didn't even know existed even though it's easy. kin to get to the root of the problem the farmers have enlisted the help of dorothy. she's the

co-founder of an app called agric tech. thinks that agric stick works offline all you have to do is take a picture of the plants like here on the tomato field you take a photo and the efforts will you what's wrong with your plants how to treat them and avoid the disease next time you don't need the internet to make it work on its own. time to try it out. already good takes a photo of his tomatoes. instantly he has a result the tomatoes have blight the advice from the app remove the affected parts of the plants. the app works by comparing the photo with images saved in a database the apps created believes the technology could transform agriculture.

the actual mostly the main difficulty right now is that our database of plants affected by pests and diseases isn't extensive enough. like the greeks took only recognizes tomato diseases but we have so many other problems all this we want to add to aggregate. the app is currently being tested by farmers in kemah run its founders hope that one day it will be a readily accessible tool for phone is to protect their crops. a message from me and the business africa team here in berlin thanks for watching.

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