2021年1月17日 · Chewing qat, a green narcotic leaf, is so widespread and ritualistic that even the fighting in Yemen's civil war can fall silent in the afternoons.

2014年1月1日 · Qat (Catha edulis) is an ever green tree/shrub naturally growing in Abysssinian mountains as well as in the other countries of East Africa. It has been introduced to Yemen before the Islamic Era, nowadays it is widely cultivated in the mountains of Sanaa and Taiz.

2020年1月1日 · Carsten Niebuhr and Forskál were the first Europeans to describe and taste qat, a euphoric plant that is now consumed in the afternoon by a large majority of Yemen’s adult population. The botanist Forskál, who died in Yemen in 1763, gave it its scientific name, Catha edulis, and made a detailed study of it in his posthumous book published in 1775.

2023年4月14日 · Catha edulis — qat’s scientific name — grows on small, bushy trees found across East Africa and Yemen. It is consumed primarily in Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia, as well as in Yemen, where the vast majority of adult males consume the drug every day and about a third of the women are daily chewers. [12]

2014年3月20日 · Qat consumption is ubiquitous in Yemen: Until the 1960s, qat-chewing was an occasional pastime, mainly for the rich. Now, it is chewed several days a week by a large proportion of the Yemeni population. We conducted a survey in 2007 that showed 72 percent of Yemeni men and 33 percent of women chewed qat regularly, some every day.

We first expound on the influence of qat on the socioeconomic life of Yemenis, then examine how rational it is for Yemeni farmers to grow it, and next describe how and why qat is a hindrance to sustainable agricultural development in Yemen.

Qat (Catha edulis) is an ever green tree/shrub naturally growing in Abysssinian mountains as well as in the other countries of East Africa. It has been introduced to Yemen before the Is-lamic Era, nowadays it is widely cultivated in the mountains of Sanaa and Taiz.

Qat is chewed by almost everyone in Yemen and has become part of the Yemeni way of life. As a crop, qat is much appreciated for its high profitability, its hardiness and drought resistance, and the few husbandry problems associated with it.

Qat (also known as khat, gat) is the Arabic word for Catha edulis (Kennedy 1987:66), green leaves grown in most parts of Yemen. The history of Qat in Yemen is so controversial as there is no clear period for its origin and use, however, there is a consensus among scholars that Qat has been used in Yemen for centuries.

2023年3月17日 · Qat is exclusively cultivated in Yemen, Ethiopia, and the Horn of Africa, and its leaves contain cathine and cathinone, which have similar less-intense effects to amphetamine. Chewing qat has become a prevalent social tradition in Yemen.