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Farming is key for the majority of African economies and accounts for at least 15% of the region’s GDP. ...

Raw cocoa beans are Nigeria's largest agricultural export commodity. The crop accounts for N17,913.28 of total agricultural exports as at Q2, 2020. ...

In 2019, the growing of crops, animal production and support activities to agriculture contributed KSh3.15 trillion (32.4% of nominal GDP). If fishing and aquaculture as well as forestry and logging are included, the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry contributed a total of KSh3.33 trilli...

In 2019, cattle and calves had the largest recorded marketed agricultural production in Kenya at KSh107.35 billion, followed by cut flowers at KSh104.14 billion and tea at KSh104.07 billion. ...

In 2019, Kenya produced 366,000 metric tonnes of wheat, according to the Economic Survey 2020. The country consumed 1,988,000 tonnes of wheat as food. A total of 19,000tonnes were used as seed and 148,000 tonnes had “other” uses. Another 98,000 tonnes were lost. According to provisional...

Nigeria was the biggest yam producer in the world in 2019, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with an output of 50 million tonnes. More: Does Nigeria have the biggest yam market in the world? ...

A total of 6,354,211 Kenyan households practised agriculture, according to the 2019 Population and Housing Census....

Kenya has 10 million hectares of agricultural land, according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census. Of this, 8.4 million hectares are mainly used for subsistence farming while 961,501 hectares are mainly used for commercial agriculture. Kajiado county has the most agricultural land (824,8...

Zimbabwe experienced adverse weather conditions during the 2018/19 cropping season (October-June), including extreme rainfall deficits and the impact of Cyclone Idai. The combined effect of these events caused a steep decline in the area harvested and lowered yields, resulting in a maize output of a...