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ANNEX 4. CENTRAL AFRICA: NATURALLY SUITABLE CROPS BY SUB-REGION AND COUNTRY, AVERAGE 1996-2000


Country

Cocoa

Coffee

Fruits

Palm oil

Cassava

Groundnuts

Maize

Pulses

Rice

Millet

Seed Cotton

Sorghum

share in permanent crops area

share in arable land

Sahel Central Africa

Chad

-

-

93.5

-

1.5

10.7

3.1

-

-

22.1

8.4

21.2

Central Africa (excluding Chad)

Cameroon

30.8

24.5

27.7

4.3

2.8

5.3

6.1

3.7

0.3

1.2

3.1

6.8

Central African Republic

1.1

27.7

65.0

7.2

10.1

5.2

4.7

1.5

0.7

0.6

2.9

1.7

Republic of Congo

11.7

8.9

53.9

15.9

54.3

17.7

5.3

5.9

0.9

-

-

-

Democratic Republic of Congo

2.4

14.8

25.6

19.1

30.5

7.6

21.6

5.0

6.8

0.8

1.0

1.2

Equatorial Guinea

58.9

9.7

47.0

3.5

19.3

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Gabon

4.9

0.3

33.1

2.4

13.7

5.2

9.1

23.4





Saõ Tomé & Principé

48.8

0.8

7.2

5.2

12.5

-

20.5

-

-

-

-

-

Central Africa (excluding Chad)

16.9

17.8

28.5

10.5

11.6

5.9

9.6

3.9

2.5

4.5

2.6

5.6

Estimates based on data extracted from FAOSTAT (2002); Note: 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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