Cereal seed quantity (FAO, tonnes) - Ag. & rural development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or successive sowing or planting whenever it occurs. The data of seed include also, when it is the case, the quantities necessary for sowing or planting the area relating to crops harvested green for fodder or for food.(e.g. green peas, green beans, maize for forage) Data for seed element are stored in tonnes (t). Whenever official data were not available, seed figures have been estimated either as a percentage of supply (e.g. eggs for hatching) or by multiplying a seed rate with the area under the crop of the subsequent year. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization
Cereal seed quantity (FAO, tonnes) - Ag. & rural development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2007)

Rank

Country

Value

1Africa3,847,249
2Sub-Saharan Africa2,660,523
3Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa2,530,348
4Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria2,073,089
5North Africa1,186,726
6Morocco471,751
7Nigeria457,259
8Egypt348,300
9Ethiopia334,477
10Algeria224,972
11Sudan165,504
12Niger165,433
13Tanzania150,735
14Mali139,932
15South Africa130,175
16Madagascar114,390
17Tunisia109,500
18Ivory Coast83,498
19Sierra Leone80,703
20Democratic Republic of the Congo78,068
21Guinea65,213
22Kenya64,975
23Uganda58,445
24Burkina Faso58,324
25Malawi57,172
26Senegal48,443
27Chad48,194
28Mozambique46,320
29Zimbabwe45,412
30Cameroon40,550
31Ghana34,350
32Libya32,203
33Zambia29,764
34Angola27,020
35Togo22,992
36Benin19,247
37Somalia12,066
38Eritrea11,530
39Rwanda9,725
40Liberia9,500
41Central African Republic7,350
42Gambia7,310
43Guinea-Bissau7,286
44Burundi6,725
45Namibia5,994
46Mauritania5,958
47Lesotho4,065
48Swaziland1,946
49Comoros1,870
50Botswana1,683
51Gabon650
52Republic of the Congo229
53Sao Tome and Principe39
54Mauritius2
55Djibouti0
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