The food and agriculture situation in Africa: prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization

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20 November l$62 Original: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Fifth session

Leopoldville

February - March 1963 Provisional agenda item 6

THE FOOD AHD AGRICULTURE SITUATION IN AFRICA (Prepared by the Food and Agrioulture Organization)

62-2976

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"•' ; THE FOOD AED AGRICULTURE SITUATION IN AFRICA

■"■■' (Prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization)

Agricultural production in Africa was considerably smaller in 196*1/62

than the1 year before, and on a per c-r/.vi .oaala cay evon have fallen below the prewar level. As imports do not appear to have increased, the drop

%xl production may have brought some reduction' in '-#erj: capita food supplies at least in the"norii-weetern part of;, the continent'. For exports of agri-

Oultxipal; products the unfavourable situation of the last few years has continued. As a result;.^?[jlower prices Afrioa!s earnings from agricultural exports declined; sharply in :3-9£k and wer,ec,no larger than, in "1956, in spite of a big increase in the volumeof .shipments,,.l?e]tween: these two years.

.: :i:u The set^apKi tc.agrioyitur^:j,S)r<>duGtirpn in: 1961/6? w,as caused chiefly

by droughts and pest damage, in some:. of th^, comtrie^^north of the Sahara^

and there is every indication that the rise in the continent's production

has been resumed during the current 1962/63 season. For export earnings,

however, no such rapid recovery is in sight. Prices of agricultural.:

exports as a whole have been more stable during the first nine months of ,1962, but there are still no signs of a general improvement.

The developments outlined above are reviewed in more detail in the

refei""^ this paper. ; There is no need to stress their serious implications for-a bbntinent where two thirds or more of the population obtains its livelihood from agricultural production ,ind where foreign exchange earnings icbm© very largely from the export of agricultural products. •*'■■'■ ■•

AfiRICTJLTlJHALJ PRODUCTION, ...

AocCrding to preliminary FAO estimates the volume of Africa's

agricultural production was about 5 PQ^1 cent less in 196l/62 than the year

before. ('Table l). T^ie.se .data are,.-still subject to revision, which is usually in:the upward direction, but there is little doubt that production fell

sharply for the first time since 1957/58 and was only slightly .above the level already reached in 1958/59-

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The steepest deoline in 196l/62 was in the output of non-food products.

Previously their production appears to have .risen, a good deal more rapidly than food production, suggesting a tendency for agricultural production

for export to increase faster than production for domestic consumption^•

As is disousssd later in this paper, the lower output of non-food products

in l'96i/62 appears already to have been reflected in some(fallihg^o'f-f

: in the volume of exports, notably of cotton, during late 196*1 ana early 1962.

In spite of the fall in 196l/62, the production of non-food products

still retains much of the expansion registered in earlier years, on a PQr capita as well as a total "basis. Per capita food production, however,

was much lower in 1961/62 than in the immediate postwar years and may even

Production series for the main commodities are shown in the Annex Table, Among the main non-food, products, cotton production is estimated to have fallen by more than 20 per cent in 196l/62. There was also a slight

decline in the production of coffee, the first interruption for many years in the very rapid expansion of this commodity, and sisal production was a little less than the year before, Among food products, there were parti cularly' big falls in the production of grains and olive oil in 1961/62.

Toial grain production was about 10 per cent lower than in 1960/61; maize

was the only major grain crop to show a slight increase, while barj«y production fell by half and wheat by about a quarter. Olive oil output dropped by 65 per cent, with the down turn in the two-year production cyole. Cocoa production, which had risen by more than 30 per cent in

1960/61, declined by about 6 per cent in 1961/62, though it still remained

far larger than any other previous crop. Sugar was the only"one of the main food crops to register a substantial increase in 1961/62, production

l/ The non-food products, such as coffee, cotton, sisal and rubber, are

still produced very largely for export, while the bulk of food production is consumed locally, notwithstanding the large exports of products

such as grains, citrus fruit, edible oil seeds and cocoa from some

countries*

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Indices of the Volume of Agricultural Production in Africa

Average Average

1948/49- 1953/54- 1958/59 1959/60 1960/51 1961/62

1952/53 1957/58 (r.:oliminary)

Indices, average 1952/53-1956/57 - 100

TOTAL PRODUCTION

All agricultural products Food products , /

Non-food products-' PER f''T^A ?"1.0Z7JCl?IC7

All agricultural products Food products .. /

Hon-food products—'

8989 87

9798 . 95.

102 102 102

100 100 100

111 108 125

102 100

115

113 109 131

101

11898

116 113136

102

99 119

ill 110 124

96 10694

■]■"/■ Coffee, tea, tobacco, inedible oilseeds, animal and vegetable fibres, and rubber,

; rising about 20 per cent above the comparatively low level of the year before- Changes in the production of most of the other food products

seem to have been smaller, though little reliable information is available on such major categories as starchy roots, which contribute the bulk of the calorie supply in many parts of the continent■, and livestock products >

which are so important in determining the nutritional quality of the diet-

Most of the decline in agricultural production in 1961/62 appears

to have been in the countries north of the Sahara* In nozr^h-west Africa,, (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) grain production was reduced by severe drought to about 40 per cent of the level of the previous year, and this disastrous harvest coincided with the downturn already noted in the production cycl:

for olives. The steep annual fluctuations in agricultural production in this part of the continent, caused■mainly by the uncertain rainfall, are .apparent from Table 2, In 196l/62 one cf the frequent poor seasons in

■ ■:■ ■ this area wa'e accompanied by unusually bad one in the United Arab Repv.blic, where -in .spite of the largest acreage ior many years, the cotton harvest

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decreased by 30 per cent, mainly as a result of severe outbreaks of cotton leafworraj because of reduced Mle water supplies the rice area declined sharply and production fell by 23 per cent. Sudan was an exception among the countries north of the Sahara, with a record production of cotton 50 per cent above the level of the year before.

South of the Sahara agricultural production probably fluctuates rather less than in the countries to the north, though it must be admitted that the statistical data for most of this area are particularly unreliablee

In 1961/62 there was a further expansion in South Africa in the production

of most of the main products apart from groundnuts. The maize harvest established yet another record and disposal of the surplus i«.proving difficult\ on the other hand maize supplies were temporarily short in Zululand as a result of drought. In Mauritius the dominant sugar crop recovered almost completely from the cyclone damage of the previous year.

However, in a number of countries south of the Sahara the production situa

tion in 1961/62 was less favourable. There were severe food shortages

in parts of Ear-i Africa and Dahomey because of drought and. floods. Droughts also aifected production in Guinea and Uiger. In Uganda cotton production fell by almost half because of adyer&e weather, though the production of coffee, the other main export crop, showed a further increase. Production was below the previous year's record levels in most of the main cocoa- producing countries. There was a fall in the production of most of the principal export crops in Congo (Leopoldville) in 1961/62, mainly because

of the political disturbances.

Production Prospects for I962/63

For the current 1962/63 harvests only very limited information is so far available, though it se^ms likely that tha continent's total agricultural production will be substantially above the low level of

1961/62. The countries of north-west Africa have had good grain harvests (wheat production in Morocco is expected to r^ach 1.4 million tons), and

a large olive oil output is also anticipated in this area. In north-east Africa, the other main part of the continent where production was low in

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■ TABLE 2 ■■■ ■- " ■ ■■

Indices of the Volume of Agricultural Production in Selected Countries of Africa

Average Average

1948/49- 1953/54- 1958/59 1959/60 1960/61 1961/62

1952/53 1957/58 (Preliminary)

Indices, average 1952/53-1956/57 « 100

HORTH-WEST AFRICA Algeria

Morocco Tunisia

SUB-TOTAL

101

9.4,/

134

99 100 111

103 102 128

-AFRICA United-Arab Republic

SUB-TOTAL^/

SOUTH OF SAHARA jjlthiopia*' South. Africa

• « *

' •• #

91

104 104

104

116 118

101

120

123

106

123 123

• • •

• • •

113

1 r

$Alr'

... _..T.:-.:;-.-uua.r

103 ... ■ '102

111

--"iio-;■"

■104 112

112

103 120

116

89 ^{102 111} 113 116 111

l/ Former French acne only.

2/ Including estimates for countries not shown separately.

2/ Excluding Eritrea-

N0Ti>: Country indices are calculated by FAQ on a uniform basis. They mayv.differ from indices produced by. the countries themselves because of differences in conoepts of productions ooverage9 weights, and. methods of calculation.

They are not yet available for 1961/62. '

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1961/62, the United Arab Republic cotton crop appears to have regained the 1960/61 level, as a result of very high yields. In Guinea th© 1962/63

season has been particularly, favourable, and increase in. production of 10 to 20 per cent over the low level of ths previous year is expected.

Although a large part of South Africa has been affected by drought, record yields..are expected in the main farming areas as a result of improved

techniques.

EXPOaTS^OP AGHICULTUBAL PRODUCTS ...

While the volume of Africa's agricultural exports has increased without interruption throughout the past decade, prices have fluctuated about a declining trend and in several years the rise in volume has been insufficient to prevent a fall in total earnings. This was the case in 1?6l, the latest full year for which data are available at the time of writing, w&en th3 continent's earnings from agricultural exports are estimated to have fallen by about 6 per cent, through the combined effect

of a 7 per cent drop in prices and a 1 per cent increase in the volume of shipments (Table j).

- -TABLE 3

Indices of the Agricultural Exports of Afrioa

Volume of exports

Average price (unit value)

"Terms of

Total earnings (at current prioes)

Total "real" earnings^

Average average 1961

1948-52 1953-57 1958 1959 I960 (Preliminary)

84

102 105

86 ' 89

Indices,

106 97 97

103 103

average 1952-56 116

96 91

111 106

124 87 84 ■

108 104

:128 87 82

111 105

-"100' 129

81

■ 15

104

'■■■■ 96

l/ Price and earnings deflated hy United Nations index of average unit value

of manufactured goods in world trade.

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3y 19.6.1 the volume of, exports had increased by more than 50 per o«nt over the 1948-52 average. Because of lower prices, however,., this rise ...

in volume has brought.only about 20 per cent more in total earnings

(valued at ourrent prioes). In "real!1 terms the trend, of agricultural

export earnings has "been even less satisfactory* The "terms ,of trade"

of the agricultural exports of. African countries have worsened, since the decline in their prices has been acoompanied by a.continued increase in the prioes of the manufactured products imported by these countries.

Thus the "real" value of Africa's earnings from agricultural exports, in terms of their purchasing power for manufactured Mpo^s, is estimated to have risen by less than 10 per cent between 1946-52 and I96I, in spite

of ike- 5Opex cent- increase xn volume. AMatber-signlTicant-"T3onrparlffoii -

■titan tn~1956y in 4lrealH terms "they were smaller" than in any year since

In recent years the beverages and tobacco group has accounted on average for a little less than 40 per cent of the continent's total"esxnings.'.'fjrpw '/,.'"

agricultural exports, and the food and feodingstuffs and agricultural ■■■

raw materials groups for just over 30 per cent each. In 1961 earnings fell for each of these main commodity groups (Table 4). For ih^"two former :"

groups an inorease in the volume of shipments was more than cancelled out by lower prices, and.for agricultural raw-materials the volume declined as 'Js-

well as prioes. V:

Export earnings from agricultural raw materials, which, in both 1959 and I960 had been rising sharply from the r-s'oession-affected level of ^ [- .

1958> are estimated to hays fallen back by about 9 per cQnt in 1961. . ':% J;! '

The volume of exports fell by about 5 per cent and prices by about 6 per, . : .- ■ oent. The lowea? volume of exports was due chiefly to smaller optton

exports from the United Arab Republic, though exports of sisal and 'ru-bbdr, r : also fell slightly. The decline in prices affected the whole group,, with -

an especially steep drop in rubber prices. . . .

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For "bevefages and tobacco there was a further fall of about 10 per cent in prices in 1961. Cocoa prices fell by no less than 20 per oeht and coffee prices by about 7 per cent, eaoh reaching the lowest annual average for more than a decade. Although the volume of exports increased

(the unpreoedently large#cocoa harvest of 1960/61 brought an expansion of more than 20 per cent in exports of this commodity), earnings for the group as a whole fell "by 7 per cent to the lowest level sinoe 1956*

... TABLE 4 ■■.-.;■•.

Indices of the Agricultural Exports of Africa, by Main Commodity Groups

Average Average 1961

1948-52 1953-57 1958 1959 I960 (Preliminary)

Indices, average 1952-56 - 100 VOLUME OF GROSS EXPORTS

All agricultural products . Food and feedingstuffs

Grains . : : .;:1

Vegetable oils and oilseeds

(edible)

Beverages and tobacco Agricultural raw materials

AVERAGE PRICE (UBIT VALUE)

All agricultural products Food and feedingetuffs

Grains

Vegetable oils and oilseeds

(edible) .

Beverages and tobacco Agricultural raw materials

TOTAL EARNINGS^/

All agricultural products

Food and feedingstuffs Grains

Vegetable oils and oilseeds

(edible)

Beverages and tobacco Agricultural raw materials

8481 89 80 81 91

102 100 101

104 90 119

86 81 90

83- 10873

106 107 110

106 108 102

9798 93.

98 9796

103:

104 10598

116 130 150

126

■= 113 105

96 9175

90 108 ' 86

111 118 113

■ 113 122 90

124116 78 127 128 128

8793

. 85 9189 79

108 108 66 116 114 101

128 116 108 111 141 122

8793 79 96 80 91

111 108

.'■85

107 113 111

- 129 119112

122 146 117

81 89 ,.,75 89 ,. 72 86

f 164106 84

109 105 101

l/ At current prices*

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For food and fsedingstuffs the decline in export earnings in I96I

was only about 2 per cent, the volume rising by 2 per cent and prices falling

"by some-4 per cent in comparison with I960. This more favourable' outcome was largely caused by the sub-group edible oils and oilseeds, for which earnings"actually increased slightly, since a 10 per cent recovery in volume

{o&i'efly the result of the large production of groundnuts and olive oil in:196o/6l) was more than sufficient to outweigh 'the dropin prices.

Earnings-from grain exports Kere almost the same as in i960, j=iJslight' fall

■"' in-pricies roughly balancing an increase in volume, ft he at and barely shipments declined very sharply, but there was a considerable increase in maize exports, mainly from South AfTlo&&-JSJz•■' ■■■..■■- ■■■■•■'■

■: During 1962:the volume of exports of most commodities appears to have , continued to increase, with the principal exception of cotton, exports of ..which are reflecting the very small 1961/62 harvests in Uganda.and the

United Arab Republic. Grain exports are likely-to have increased-' substantially. In July 1962 South Africa -sold 67>G,00Q, tons of m&tze- to . Mainland China, and the Federation of Rhodesia and ttyasaland has also 0

found a market in China for(.&art of its surplus, while the countries of north-west Africa exported very little grain' in I96I (Algeria was. imfact a large importer of durum and durum-substitute wheats), Morocco and Tunisia expect surpluses of hard wheat, of 200,OOP tons and 60-100,.000r tons :„■

respectively from their 1962/63 harvests, though both will have a deficit

of soft wheat.

. IfhileFAO. estimates of the average unit values of exports: are not ,y?* ^MW?19' ^dividual price quotations give: some indication of trejids

during,the first; nine months of 1962. Prices of agricultural expor-fcs:as a whole appear to have remained fairly stable at levels close to those prevailing towards the end of 1961. Prices:of food and fe^dingstuffs were slightly higher in the third quarter of 1962 and those of beverages and tobaooo and of agricultural raw materials slightly lower than in the

■■■;rr ■ -ni...":-1- .:O.; - .; , -v- J- . ■ ■.■■■' '•■=■■ .^ir^*: ' corresponding period of I96I.

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In the food and feedingstuffs group, prices of rice and sugar have risen sharply, "but there has been a steep decline during 1962 in the prices of vegetable oils and oilseeds, especially.of groundnuts and.oil. In the beverages and tobacco group "the main movement has been in coooa prices, which rose considerably in the last part of 1961 because of uncertainty concerning the Bize of the crop and then fell baok in the early months of 1962. Prices of Robusta coffee have recovered slightly. Among the agricultural raw materials, prices of cotton and of rubber have tended to drift downwards during 1962, while there has been some recovery in wool

and sisal prices* . .

Price and Marketing Policies '

There have been a number of important developments in price and marketing policies for export crops. Because of the lower world prices, which have placed a strain on stabilisation1 funds, several countries reduced

producer prices for some of their main export commodities in X96l/6;2v

For 0000a, for example, producer prices were considerably reduced ahL Cameroun, Ivory Coast and ITigaria, and for coffee in Ivory Coast' and Togo.

While cocoa prices were> maintained in Ghana, producers' immedie-te receipts were- reduced, by 10 per cent through the introduction of compulsory saving

bonds. For the 1962/63 season cocoa prices are again unchanged in Ghana

and have been raised slightly in Nigeria.

Responsibility for the purchase of Ghana's coooa crop has been assumed by the United Ghana Farmers' Council, in place of the looal and foreign buyers previously licensed by the Marketing Board. The selling centre for Ghanaian cocoa has also been transferred from London to Accra. Nigeria is now selling cocoa in Lagos as well as in London, and from 1 October

1962.f.o.b« sales have been made from Lagoe only. ■.

Concerning cotton, in the United Arab Republic all internal and external trade transactions have been taken over by the Egyptian Cotton Commission and the National Public Organization for Cotton Trading. Ihe Ministry of Economy now fixes prices bafore each season, as well as the terms and the dates of delivery of the ootton to the Commission. In

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Nigeria and Uganda producer prices for cotton were lowered, for the 196l/62 sff,son* In^TTganda, however, the former levsl has been restored for 1962/63, in order to maintain growers1 incomes and encourage them to increase

acreage.

Producer prices for both groundnuts and palm oil were reduced in . .Nigeria in 1961/62, but groundnut prices in Senegal were left unchanged.

;,- . : The fixed producer -prices for maize in South Sirica have been, .reduced

. . yfor the 1962/63 season in an effort to limit the counting surplus of this

. -commodity. , Following South Africa's withdrawal from the British, Common- -:.: wealth, and. hence from the Commonwealth Sugar Agr&ement, the United

Mngdom has agreed to purchase at a fixed price 150,000; tons of South

African sugar annually for five years. Nevertheless, it has been necessary ...■ "to, impose cuts on South African sugar production in 1962/63.

^.. In.re.gard to .international commodity arrangements, a draft agreement for, cocoa .has, been discussed by the FAO Cocoa Study. Group and will be

■ i, placed.before, a United Nations negotiating conference to be^eonvened in _ .,1963.-For coffee, the. series of one-year agreements ha? now given way

;.: to a longer-term International Coffee Agreement, designed.to regulate exports by .means of quotas, which was negotiated in Au^st 1962. The r ;,agreement.is;initiaiY,fpr.a five-year, period, and includes, consuming as

well as producing countries.

TABL5 5

Indigos of the ijgricultural Imports and yet Agricultural Trade of Africa

Average Average . ... 1961

VOLUME OF GROSS IMPORTS

Ail agricultural products

Food products Grains

VOLUME OP NET EXPORTS All agricultural products Food products

8584

100

84 77

Indices,

105 105 106

106 108

average

120 125 142

115 135

1952-56 -

138 154 217

120 76

146 162 215

121 68

100

148 1 162 215

122 73

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crops that enters commercial channels. While in most of Africa the overall quantity of food supplies per capita is pro"ba"bly more or leoa eufficientj there may be shortages in the drier areas in certain seasons. The quality of the diet, in terms of its content of livestock products and other

nutritionally valuable foods, is generally unsatisfactory. It is not possible, however, to determine what changes have occured in the quality of the diet, since these changes usually come very gradually, and statistics of such products as meat, milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables are particularly unreliable.

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Annex

"Production" of "Malior 'Crops/ African Continent and Principal Producing Countries

Average Average

1948/49- 1953/54- 1958/59 1959/60 1960/61 1961/62

"l9~52/53" 1957/58 (Preliminary)

Wheat

"United Arab Republic Algeria

Morocco South Africa Tunisia

BaroJ-j;

Morocco

; .Algeria Tunisia

Waz.7,e - ' "

South Africa

H^ajpaddy)

" TThited Arab Repbulic' Madagascar

£ierra Leone

Congo (Leopoldville)

Total graius^

Sygar (raw value) South Africa

Mauritius Fe-inion

■■Mozambique

Algeria South Africa Morocco Tunisia

(

4,290

1,113' 996 786 555452

3,400 - 1,481

808 218 '" 8,560 "

2,471 ,3.360

■ 971 ""

8292/

274^

^0^690

... -~-f™

443116 86 1,720 1,350 228

64

74

thousand

5?|5TO

1,548 1,339 1,083 683 515..

1,677 79B 154 104422 3,519 , 1,272 '3^80

l;O23 228 184 35,650"

izi40

742" "■■

536

185,

121

287 ■ 181 tj.5

racorio \o\\t

5jl33°

' 1,412"

1,129 1,281 ■

616

ii43O l;59O

78O ■ 282 11,100 3,660

" 1,082'

1,100

264

173 '■ 36,380 2,560

1,02 3'"■

526 165 153 2,040

133

210 156

0 11

i

T.

"10.

. 3:

'.&

1]

36,

h

if ,160 ,443 ,105

956

740 525 ,800 ,119-

6432 36

i252,801..

,^80 078

264I65

,230

680

94658O 200 174

TJ60620 318 275166

1,499 1,505 974 771 439*

I*.100 '

1,362

8^4 ■■

136*

.12^110

•4>534

4,520 I.485

lil93

237* ..

3.8*120-- : 2-400

^o"? ■

236 218

■•■ 157 2,250 302 238 140

4,040 , .1,436 628 601

833

207*

1,^20

47 6

201 58*

12^380

4,85"5

4,240

■1,142

l,300*

300*

35,470

2,920

553262

4 * *

2,240^^

17563

A • •

• a i 0 * •

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ASH3X TABUS (continued)

Morocco South .Africa Algeria

OiJ.ve Oil Tunisia Algeria 1 Morocco

Palm Kernels

Average

1948/49- 1952/53

1,080 170

199 239

■■"v 22"

53

13^

740 / 376

Congo (Leopoldville)-^ 117 Sierra Leone^

Palm Pile/ ■ ' ■

74 800

Nigeria" */ 352

Oongo (Leopoldville)^ 172

£ro-and,nuts (in shell)

Nigeria c^n^gai

South Africa-

*../ o fy^*-\ r /

Ivory Coast U^vnda Angola

Congo (Leopoldville)

Madagascar . Ethiopia Caraeroun Kenya

Tanganyika

" 2,440

690*

558 103

"46100

280 49 5635

21

31 34*

9 10 14

Average

1953/54-

(thousand 1,440

251 280 340 110 66 20 810 446 129 62 900

432206

3,320 946*

642 189

110 49

46Q

87 57 74 32

5150*

1518 20

1958/59 1959/60 1960/61

motrio tons' 1,650

385 299 340

. 190 "

13517 27 860 468 144 56 930 ...

457 225

3,620 1,025*

765 195 110 54 610 15984 89*

5446 57*27 24 23

)

1,630

■^39?

289 376 100' .

5918 12

830 434*162

59 930 . 433 245 3,510 ■

900* ■ 832 214 100 42

670 140 107 108*

61 48 57*

2924 23

1,760 444 415347

190 13718*

30

820 429*

142

55*

890423 234*

4,070

1,150*

870 268.

20v 44 770185 119 132*

60*

51 5138 34 27

1961/62 (Preliminary)

1,620 454

• ■ ■

375*

■ 100 38*

17*

12*

760 411127

56*

880 403 234 3,970 1,245*

890 : 195

100 45*

740 170*

132*

114*36*

57*

54*_-«•»

39*

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AHKBX TABLE (continued)

Cocoa (beans)

Nigeria*

Cameroun _/

Ivory Coas-fr"

Tea

Kyasaland Kenya

Tobacco

Southern Rhodesia Cotton flint)

United Arab Republic Sudan

Uganda

Congo (Leopoldville)

Mozambique

Nigeria^

Tanganyika Chad

Sisal

Tanganyika Angola Kenya Mozambique Rubber ^/

Nigeria^

Liberia

Congo (Leopoldville)

Average Average

1948/49- 1953/54- 1958/59 1959/60 1960/61 1952/53 1957/58

500 253 109

%9'

53

117 6 140 44 690 396 7466 46 29*

14

10 17 230 137

21 38 19 60 14

1031

(thousand

510 236 , ,105

5861

9

"S3

710 346 90 66 48

■29 31 21 23

300 179 37*39

27*

100

3831 27

motrio tone) 570 260 13766 56

' il

"H2200

8?0 446 127 73 4943*

30 31 24 350 200 47 33*

120 42 43 35

660 322

151

70 62

11 13 220

95

900

457129 6560 46 30

37 14 370 209*

56*

5628*

140 54 43 40

870 439198 82 94

. 45.

12 14 210

log"

920 430 11465 38*38*

5134 34

20cT380 58*

64

29*

140 59 42 36

1961/62 (Preliminary)

820

410

18978 81

51

13

210 111

730 302 17336 22*

38*

43 30 20*

370 201*

58*

63*29*

14056**

43 34*

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FOOTNOTES

..2/. Infi.lu.iing .alsajaillats-and-sorghums,- and-oats*— R-iee—is- indxidett-

milled equivalent at 65 per cent of paddy,

Zj. .Pour-year average. "■ ' ;

&hf export*. — - --

&] Plantation production ^d'^r^auoti-6n'rfr^ni fruits delivered "by

African growers.

■■5/ FAO oatimatoB. ' " *" .

6/ Exports ;of copra and coconut oil in copra equivalent.

7/ K."Ice-ted output.

§/ Purchases by Marketing Board.

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