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TABLE 94 Area under irrigation by country and by basin in hectares

Basin

Senegal

Niger

Lake Chad

Nile

Rift

Sheb-Juba

Congo/Zaire

Zambezi

Okavango

Limpopo

Orange

South. Int.

North. Int.

Med. Coast

N.W. Coast

W. Coast

W.C. Coast

S.W. Coast

S.A. Coast

I.O. Coast

E.C. Coast

N.E. Coast

Madagascar

Islands

Total for country

Country

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

(16)

(17)

(18)

(19)

(20)

(21)

(22)

(23)

(24)


Algeria


0

0










45000

510500

0










555500

Angola







2000

2000

0



0





1000

70000







75000

Benin


1090














9146









10236

Botswana








0

0

1381

0

0













1381

Burkina Faso


850














23480









24330

Burundi




0



14400


















14400

Cameroon


2500

13820




1650










3000








20970

Cape Verde
























2779

2779

Central African Rep.



135




0


















135

Chad


0

14020










0












14020

Comoros
























130

130

Congo







217










0








217

C�te d'Ivoire


0














72750









72750

Djibouti





100

















574



674

Egypt




3078000









0

168000








0



3246000

Equatorial Guinea

















-








-

Eritrea




15124

0

















13000



28124

Ethiopia




23160

166396

0
















0



189556

Gabon

















4450








4450

Gambia
















1670









1670

Ghana
















6374









6374

Guinea

0

1000














91880









92880

Guinea Bissau
















17115









17115

Kenya




6000

27000

0















33610




66610

Lesotho











2722














2722

Liberia
















2100









2100

Libya













150000

320000











470000

Madagascar























1087000


1087000

Malawi








28000













0




28000

Mali

300

78320











0



0









78620

Mauritania

46450












2000


750










49200

Mauritius
























17500

17500

Morocco + W. Sahara













10000

248200

1000000










1258200

Mozambique








20000


40000










41710

5000




106710

Namibia








6142

0


0

0






0

0






6142

Niger


64480

2000










0












66480

Nigeria


80000

82821













50000

20000








232821

Rwanda




2000



2000


















4000

Sao Tome & Principle.
























9700

9700

Senegal

71400















0









71400

Seychelles


























Sierra Leone
















29360









29360

Somalia






199000















0

1000



200000

South Africa










198000

300000








84000

688000





1270000

Sudan



500

1935200

0








500









10000



1946200

Swaziland




















67400





67400

Tanzania




10000

0


0

0













140000




150000

Togo
















7008









7008

Tunisia













25000

360000











385000

Uganda




9120

0




















9120

Zaire




0



10500










0








10500

Zambia







5000

41400

















46400

Zimbabwe








49327


2000


250








65000





116577

Sum of country (C)

118150

228240

113296

5078604

193496

199000

35767

146869

0

241381

302722

250

232500

1606700

1000750

310883

28450

70000

84000

862110

178610

24574

1087000

30109

12173461

Potential for basin (B)

420000

2816510

1163200

8000000

844010

351460

9800000

3160380

208060

295400

390000

54000

71000

850000

1200000

5112750

835000

1807900

84200

1500000

1927460

78050

1500000

34990

42504370

(C) as % of (B)

28.1%

8.1%

9.7%

63.5%

22.9%

56.6%

0.4%

4.6%

0.0%

81.7%

77.6%

0.5%

327.5%

189.0%

83.4%

6.1%

3.4%

3.9%

99.8%

57.5%

9.3%

31.5%

72.5%

86.1%

28.8%

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