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Along with climate and corresponding types of vegetation, the economy of a nation also influences the level of agricultural production. Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat.
Agriculture is the main part of Tanzania's economy. [1] As of 2016, Tanzania had over 44 million hectares of arable land with only 33 percent of this amount in cultivation. [ citation needed ] Almost 70 percent of the rich population live in rural areas, [ 2 ] and almost all of them are involved in the farming sector. [ 3 ]
Potato field in Bamboutos Cooking bananas near Bandjoun Palm kernels in Tayap Cocoa Farm Mr. Ateh Eldeno harvesting cocoa in his farm Cotton harvesting. According to a document jointly published in 2007 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER), and that of Fishery, Livestock and Animal Husbandry (MINEPIA); in recent years, food production did not follow the rapid ...
Lathyrus sativus, also known as grass pea, cicerchia, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, [2] white pea [3] and white vetch, [4] is a legume (family Fabaceae) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa. [5]
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as of 2012, the average cowpea yield in Western Africa was an estimated 483 kilograms per hectare (431 lb/acre), [83] which is still 50% below the estimated potential production yield. [85]
Development of agricultural output of South Africa in 2015 US$ since 1961 A windpump on a farm in South Africa.. Agriculture in South Africa contributes around 5% of formal employment, relatively low compared to other parts of Africa and the number is still decreasing, [1] as well as providing work for casual laborers and contributing around 2.6 percent of GDP for the nation. [2]
Algeria's agriculture evolved after independence was achieved in 1962. The industry experienced multiple policy changes modernize and decry on food imports. Today, Algeria's agriculture industry continues to expand modern irrigation and size of cultivable land. Despite Algeria's geographical size, less than 4% of its total land area is cultivable.
Since 1985, free market policies have advocated the decentralisation of state owned plantations and government owned agricultural produce towards localized private smallholders. There are as many as 500,000 operating in Guinea by the late 1990s which reportedly yielded twice as much as the agricultural output than state owned agriculture did in ...