By “bringing sesame up to international export standards” and cutting out brokers, sesame farmers in Somalia may have a chance to bolster an underdeveloped market, a CCTV Africa report said. In the past few years, importation of sesame has risen, but farmers feel that they are being pushed out and given the short end of the stick as industrialization of the crop has yet to expand.

“If we get investors, people with real interest in the sesame — then we have the potential to produce the sesame in large quantities,” Mohamed Abdiaziz said. “But now there are middle men who are between us and the importers.”