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ANNEX 3. EAST AFRICA: NATURALLY SUITABLE CROPS BY SUB-REGION AND COUNTRY, AVERAGE 1996-2000


Country

Coffee

Fruits

Groundnuts

Maize

Millet

Pulses

Sesame seed

Sorghum

share of permanent crop area (%)

share of arable land (%)

Burundi

8.0

86.2

1.4

12.5

1.0

33.9

-

5.7

Eritrea

-

19.0

0.4

4.6

11.0

17.9

2.6

37.2

Ethiopia

35.9

2.6

0.1

17.3

3.1

10.3

0.3

12.3

Kenya

34.2

29.8

1.2

38.2

2.2

17.5

0.6

3.4

Rwanda

9.4

15.6

0.4

8.9

0.5

33.2

-

14.6

Seychelles

-

7.6

1.2

-

-

-

-

-

Somalia

-

94.5

-

20.2

-

5.6

6.7

32.3

Sudan

-

53.7

8.3

0.4

14.3

0.8

10.8

32.7

Uganda

5.5

15.3

10.8

12.0

7.7

16.2

3.5

5.5

Tanzania

12.6

29.0

3.5

46.0

7.0

20.0

2.3

12.3

East Africa

12.5

26.5

3.6

12.9

7.3

7.9

4.7

18.9

Estimates based on data extracted from FAOSTAT (2002); Note: For Djibouti no available data; shaded cells stand for 'naturally suitable crops of the sub-region', whereas bold and italic cells indicate 'naturally suitable country-specific crops'. Permanent crops with a share exceeding 10% and annual crops exceeding 5% of the total area were retained.


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