Increasing Agricultural Productivity:
Encouraging Foreign Direct Investments in the COMCEC Region
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shows that Asian Group had more than half of the agricultural GDP of the COMCEC Region
between 1990 and 2011. 18
Figure 6: Agricultural GDP by COMCEC Sub-Regions (2011)
Source: COMCEC Agriculture Outlook 2013; FAO Online database, 2013.
Considered the agricultural GDP and employment, as of 2009 the average agricultural labour
productivity in the COMCEC Member Countries was US$509 per agricultural worker per year,
compared to a worldwide average of $US681 - 33% higher19. According to the UN’s 2011 data, at
the individual country level, Indonesia had the highest amount of agricultural GDP with 20,2
percent. Five member countries, namely Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan accounted
for half of the COMCEC agricultural GDP.
Table 5 shows the COMCEC Member Countries which were among the World top 20 producers
per commodity in 2010.
18 COMCEC Agriculture Outlook, 2013.
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