|
Country |
Cocoa |
Palm |
Cassava |
Maize |
Millet |
Rice |
Sorghum |
Yams |
|
share of permanent crop area (%) |
share of arable land (%) |
|||||||
|
Benin |
- |
8.0 |
10.7 |
31.3 |
2.1 |
0.9 |
8.7 |
7.7 |
|
Côte d'Ivoire |
50.0 |
3.1 |
10.5 |
23.7 |
3.1 |
17.3 |
1.7 |
11.6 |
|
Ghana |
66.2 |
5.6 |
17.7 |
19.8 |
5.4 |
3.3 |
9.1 |
6.1 |
|
Guinea |
2.5 |
51.7 |
15.6 |
9.8 |
1.2 |
57.0 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
|
Guinea-Bissau |
- |
18.8 |
0.6 |
4.6 |
8.1 |
21.6 |
5.6 |
- |
|
Liberia |
5.9 |
7.5 |
13.0 |
- |
- |
35.6 |
- |
0.6 |
|
Nigeria* |
30.6 |
11.5 |
10.5 |
14.4 |
19.8 |
7.3 |
23.3 |
8.7 |
|
Sierra Leone |
55.1 |
45.1 |
10.7 |
1.8 |
3.3 |
53.1 |
4.4 |
- |
|
Togo |
18.4 |
11.8 |
4.5 |
16.2 |
3.9 |
1.8 |
8.4 |
2.7 |
|
Coastal West Africa |
52.6 |
8.8 |
10.8 |
15.9 |
14.7 |
9.0 |
17.8 |
7.9 |
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.
