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Agricultural land > % of land area	76.4 % of land area		[13th of 198]
Agricultural land > sq. km	36,960 sq. km		[95th of 198]
Agricultural machinery > tractors	1,870		[124th of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland	1,596 thousand hectares		[92nd of 148]
Arable land > % of land area	22.65 % of land area		[44th of 199]
Arable land > hectares	1,096,000 hectares		[104th of 199]
Banana production	401,766 metric tonnes		[23rd of 48]
Cereal yield > kg per hectare	4,135.5 kg/ha		[31st of 171]
Cotton exports	0 thousand bales		[91st of 109]
Cotton production	3		[65th of 109]
Crop production index	107.6 %		[85th of 182]
Fertilizer use	54.3 kg		[66th of 138]
Food production index	102.6 %		[123rd of 182]
Labor share	16%		[97th of 149]
Organic cropland	14,963 hectares		[42nd of 88]
Pesticide use	2.1 kg		[14th of 45]
Products sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs
Tractor concentration	1.2		[111st of 147]
Tractors	1,868		[115th of 147]
value added > annual % growth	7.3 %		[19th of 164]

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