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Agricultural growth	120		[51st of 149]
Agricultural land > % of land area	47.37 % of land area		[75th of 198]
Agricultural land > sq. km	5,130 sq. km		[144th of 198]
Agricultural machinery > tractors	3,080		[114th of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland	274 thousand hectares		[135th of 148]
Arable land > % of land area	16.07 % of land area		[73rd of 199]
Arable land > hectares	174,000 hectares		[143rd of 199]
Banana production	130,000 metric tonnes		[37th of 48]
Cereal production	120 thousand metric tons		[51st of 149]
Cereal yield > kg per hectare	1,160 kg/ha		[138th of 171]
Crop production index	98.8 %		[144th of 182]
Fertilizer use	81.8 kg		[50th of 138]
Food production index	99.4 %		[144th of 182]
Labor share	20.3%		[84th of 149]
Meat production	82 thousand metric tons		[112nd of 149]
Organic cropland	205 hectares		[71st of 88]
Products sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus, yams, ackees, vegetables; poultry, goats, milk; crustaceans, mollusks
Tractor concentration	11.2		[65th of 147]
Tractors	3,080		[107th of 147]
value added > annual % growth	-6.97 %		[128th of 164]

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