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Agricultural growth	120		[48th of 149]
Agricultural machinery > tractors	315,000		[20th of 190]
DEFINITION: Agricultural machinery refers to the number of wheel and crawler tractors (excluding garden tractors) in use in agriculture at the end of the calendar year specified or during the first quarter of the following year.		View time series
SOURCE: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
Arable and permanent cropland	50,600 thousand hectares		[7th of 148]
DEFINITION: Arable and permanent cropland 2000.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Arable land > % of land area	6.43 % of land area		[62nd of 199]
DEFINITION: Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.		View time series
SOURCE: World Resources Institute
Arable land > hectares	49,402,000 hectares		[4th of 199]
DEFINITION: Arable land (in hectares) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Area > Rice	70,000		[23rd of 23]
DEFINITION: Land area under Rice, hectares, 2003/2004
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Banana production	230,000 metric tonnes		[30th of 48]
DEFINITION: Metric tons of Bananas produced in 2000.
SOURCE: Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division, FAS, USDA
Cereal production	120 thousand metric tons		[48th of 149]
DEFINITION: Average production of cereals (1999-2001). Average Production of Cereals refers to the amount of cereals produced in a given country or region each year. Data are reported in thousand metric tons. Cereals include wheat, barley, maize, rye, oats, millet, s
SOURCE: Agri-Food Business Development Centre
Cotton exports	1,700 thousand bales		[3rd of 109]
DEFINITION: Exports of cotton 2003/2004
SOURCE: World Resources Institute
Cotton production	1,300		[9th of 109]
DEFINITION: Production of cotton 2003/2004, in thousand bales.
SOURCE: United States Department of Agriculture
Fertilizer use	45.5 kg		[74th of 138]
DEFINITION: Average fertilizer use (kg per ha of cropland 2000). Fertilizer use, kilograms per hectare, is calculated by WRI by dividing the total fertilizer consumption, measured in kilograms of plant nutrient, by the total hectares of arable and permanent cropland. The measure of fertilizer consumption is an aggregate of nitrogenous, phosphate and potash fertilizers. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collects data on fertilizer use through surveys distributed to participating governments. In addition, the Ad Hoc Working Party on Fertilizer Statistics works to improve geographic coverage of the data. Hectares of arable and permanent cropland are determined through a variety of means, including self-reporting from governments and FAO estimation methods.
SOURCE: United States Department of Agriculture
Food production index	91.9 %		[173rd of 182]
DEFINITION: Food production index covers food crops that are considered edible and that contain nutrients. Coffee and tea are excluded because, although edible, they have no nutritive value.		View time series
SOURCE: World Resources Institute
Grains > Rice production	358 thousand metric tons		[18th of 16]
DEFINITION: Figures for 2003/2004
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Grains > Wheat consumption	6,200 thousand metric tons		[16th of 15]
DEFINITION: Figures for 2003/2004
SOURCE: United States Department of Agriculture
Grains > Wheat production	24,000 thousand metric tons		[7th of 17]
DEFINITION: Figures for 2003/2004
SOURCE: United States Department of Agriculture
Labor share	4.5%		[133rd of 149]
DEFINITION: Agricultural labor as a percent of total labor force. Agricultural labor as a percentage of the total labor force is calculated by WRI by dividing the number of agricultural workers by the total number of workers in the labor force. Agricultural labor for
SOURCE: United States Department of Agriculture
Tractor concentration	6.2		[81st of 147]
DEFINITION: Tractors per 1000 Hectares of Cropland is calculated by WRI by dividing the number of tractors in use by the total hectares of arable and permanent cropland. Data for agricultural machinery are reported by country governments through surveys. Individual countries have different methods of data collection.
SOURCE: World Resources Institute
Tractors	315,000		[20th of 147]
DEFINITION: Number of tractors 2000. Number of tractors in use refers to the total number of wheeled and crawler tractors used in agriculture. Garden tractors are excluded.
SOURCE: World Resources Institute
value added > annual % growth	-6.1 %		[148th of 164]
DEFINITION: Annual growth rate for agricultural value added based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2000 U.S. dollars. Agriculture corresponds to ISIC divisions 1-5 and includes forestry, hunting, and fishing, as well as cultivation of crops and livestock production. Value added is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural resources. The origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3.		View time series
SOURCE: World Resources Institute
Yield > Wheat	2.01		[21st of 26]
DEFINITION: Yield of Wheat, Metric tons per hectare, 2003/2004
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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