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Jatropha curcas is a cash crop grown for biofuel production in Africa. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Some have criticized the practice of raising non-food plants for export while Africa has problems with hunger and food shortages, and some studies have correlated the proliferation of land acquisitions, often for use to grow non-food cash crops with increasing ...
The agricultural industry makes a large contribution to the country's foreign exchange earnings, with more than US$1 billion in earnings from cash crop exports. [4] The 6 main cash crops are cashew nuts, coffee, cotton, sisal, tea and tobacco. [5] At one point in its agricultural history, Tanzania was the largest producer of sisal in the world. [6]
Principal food crops include cassava, peanuts, sorghum, millet, maize, sesame, and plantains. Principal cash crops for export include cotton, coffee, and tobacco. [15] Timber has accounted for about 16% of export earnings and the diamond industry for nearly 54%. [14] Central African Republic is a least developed country according to United Nations.
The Ujamaa program saw a shift in agriculture from cash crops to alternative crops. Furthermore, mass relocation of people and the collectivization of villages during the 1980s resulted in many farmers abandoning large real estates and areas of the crop production.
Young boy grinding sugar cane near Flumpa, Nimba County, 1968. Agriculture in Liberia is a major sector of the country's economy worth 38.8% of GDP, employing more than 70% of the population and providing a valuable export for one of the world's least developed countries (as defined by the UN).
Crops originating from South Africa (6 P) W. Watermelons (18 P) Pages in category "Crops originating from Africa" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of ...
Uganda's main food crops have been plantains, bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, millet, sorghum, corn, beans, and groundnuts. Major cash crops have been coffee, cotton, tea, cocoa, vanilla and tobacco, although in the 1980s many farmers sold food crops to meet short-term expenses. The production of cotton, tea, and tobacco virtually collapsed ...
In the early years of the 20th century, European estates produced the bulk of exportable cash crops directly, but by the 1930s, many of these crops, particularly tobacco and cotton, were produced by Africans, either as smallholders on Crown land or as tenants on the estates. The first estate crop was coffee, grown commercially in quantity from ...