Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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TABLE 2: COMPOSITION OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL TRADE FOR OIC MEMBER COUNTRIES
Imports
Share of total
import value Exports
Share of total
export value
Wheat and meslin, unmilled 13.9% Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices 22.6%
Sugar 10.0% Fruit and nuts, excluding oil nuts 17.4%
Dairy, eggs 9.6% Fish, crustaceans, molluscs 13.8%
Rice 11.3% Vegetables 8.7%
Meat, meat preparations 8.1% Miscellaneous edible products 8.0%
Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices 7.9% Dairy, eggs 7.3%
Feed 7.4% Sugar 5.9%
Miscellaneous edible products 7.4% Rice 5.6%
Maize 6.2% Feed 3.0%
Fruit and nuts, excluding oil nuts 5.6% Live animals 2.6%
Vegetables 4.7% Wheat and meslin, unmilled 2.4%
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs 4.6% Meat, meat preparations 2.1%
Live animals 2.8% Maize 0.3%
Barley 2.8% Barley 0.2%
Total value (US$ billions) 114.8 Total value (US$ billions) 57.4
Source: UN COMTRADE Database (UN 2014).
Note: Figures based on average export values between 2008 and 2012 using SITC Rev 3.
While export markets present significant opportunities for smallholder farmers in OIC
member countries, particularly the more commercially oriented farmers, increases in
demand in domestic markets generally dwarf the opportunities presented by export
markets. compares estimates of domestic gross production values for the top 10
sources (Annex Table 1.28) with export values for the top 10 sources for seven of the eight
case study countries. Indonesia and Jordan stand out from the other countries because the
export values of their top 10 commodities are close to 70 percent of the value of gross
domestic production from their top 10 sources. The comparable shares for the other case
study countries are less than 15 percent.
TABLE 3: VALUE OF DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION VERSUS AGRICULTURAL
EXPORTS IN CASE STUDY COUNTRIES
Case study
country
Domestic gross production value,
top 10 sources
(average of 2010–12, in constant 2004–
06 US$ millions)
Export value,
top 10 products
(average of 2009–11, in constant
2005 US$ millions)
Mozambique 2,920 378
Nigeria 29,304 1,026
Bangladesh 8,183 279
Indonesia 34,964 24,554
Turkey 31,932 4,752
Kyrgyz Republic 994 117
Jordan 820 564
Source: Authors’ calculations, based on FAOSTAT (FAO 2014) and World Development Indicators (World Bank
2014h).
Note: No data available for Uganda.