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Agricultural growth	117		[60th of 149]
Agricultural land > % of land area	57.46 % of land area		[48th of 198]
Agricultural land > sq. km	69,760 sq. km		[78th of 198]
Agricultural machinery > tractors	2,930		[116th of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland	2,746 thousand hectares		[71st of 148]
Arable land > % of land area	15.86 % of land area		[74th of 199]
Arable land > hectares	1,925,000 hectares		[83rd of 199]
Banana production	91,636 metric tonnes		[44th of 48]
Cereal production	117 thousand metric tons		[60th of 149]
Cereal yield > kg per hectare	1,789.3 kg/ha		[108th of 171]
Cotton exports	9 thousand bales		[57th of 109]
Cotton production	10		[57th of 109]
Fertilizer use	10.7 kg		[109th of 138]
Food production index	123.1 %		[12th of 182]
Labor share	19.3%		[89th of 149]
Meat production	90 thousand metric tons		[108th of 149]
Products coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame, soya, beans; beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products; shrimp, lobsters
Tractor concentration	1		[118th of 147]
Tractors	2,700		[110th of 147]
value added > annual % growth	3.11 %		[63rd of 164]

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