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Middle East > Saudi Arabia > Agriculture

SAUDI AGRICULTURE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural machinery > tractors 9,930 Time series [87th of 190]
Agricultural raw materials exports > % of merchandise exports 0.09 % Time series [103rd of 154]
Arable and permanent cropland 3,785 thousand hectares [58th of 148]
Arable land > % of land area 1.8 % of land area Time series [177th of 199]
Arable land > hectares 3,600,000 hectares Time series [55th of 199]
Cereal yield > kg per hectare 4,565 kg/ha Time series [25th of 171]
Crop production index 115.9 % Time series [37th of 182]
Fertilizer consumption > metric tons 381,300 metric tons Time series [40th of 169]
Fertilizer use 104.6 kg [38th of 138]
Food production index 118.6 % Time series [18th of 182]
Labor share 9.2% [117th of 149]
Livestock production index 108.1 % Time series [76th of 181]
Permanent crops 191,000 hectares [81st of 181]
Products
wheat, barley, tomatoes, melons, dates, citrus; mutton, chickens, eggs, milk
Tractor concentration 2.5 [100th of 147]
Tractors 9,500 [80th of 147]
value added > annual % growth 1.77 % Time series [108th of 164]
value added per worker > constant 2000 US$ 15,396.84 constant 2000 US$ Time series [24th of 163]
Workers per hectare 0.2 [103rd of 148]
Yield > Wheat 4.71 [5th of 26]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2000; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division, FAS, USDA

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah, Al Arabiyah as Suudiyah , saudi arabia b, saudi-arabia

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COMMENTARY     

Saira
8th November 2005
It is really good except you just need Saudi Arabia's steel production, percent of people in manufacturing, percent of people in in agriculture, and major manufactured products.
Cheri Foster
4th December 2004
Thank ypu! This was the only sight I found that was easy to navigate with straightforward information about food imports.
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