[2] Bardere sits on the Jubba River around 250 km west of the city of Baidoa and is in a highland area with fertile soil.

[5][6] During the Middle Ages, Bardera and its surrounding area was part of the Ajuran Empire that governed much of southern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, with its domain extending from Hobyo in the north, to Qelafo in the west, to Kismayo in the south.

[10][11] In the 1830s, a new militant extremist group rose in the citadel of Bardera, overlooking the Jubba River, and began imposing their interpretation of Islam on the surrounding regions, including the coastal city of Barawa, which they subdued and captured in 1840.

The citadel was besieged and then burned to the ground, solidifying Sultan Yusuf's paramount authority in southern Somalia following his Conquest of Bardera.

[12] Following the defeat of the Bardera recovered and remained relatively quiet until the eventual end of the Geledi Sultanate and subsequent incorporation into Italian Somaliland.

This production began to increase rapidly but eventually fell off in the 1980s due to failed agricultural policies of the Somali government.

German Explorer Carl Von Der Decken was killed at this same site in 1860, remnants of his wrecked ship still remain.

Since the start of the civil war in Somalia, produce from Bardera to large urban centers like Mogadishu, Kismayo, or Baidoa were diverted to Kenyan markets such as Wajir, Garissa, Mombasa, and Nairobi.

[20] Sorghum, corn or maize, different types of onions, beans, sesame, tobacco, and fruits such as bananas, watermelon, oranges, papayas, and mangoes, from Bardera farms reach markets as far as Djibouti, about 3,000 km away to the north of Somalia.

Bardera polytechnic college s policy is give vocational training, real marketable skills for 16 to 60 age population.

Mohamud Ali Magan, Somali Foreign Affairs, Consul General to United States Of America and Canada.