Reducing On-Farm Food Losses
In the OIC Member Countries
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For the African Group, the major cereals are maize, millet, rice and sorghum. Roots/tubers are
of primary importance for these countries, with high production of cassava, sweet potatoes,
yams and other root crops (cocoyam, taro, and dasheen). Bananas and plantains, cowpeas,
groundnuts and oil palm fruits are all major crops.
Table B.3: Major Crops in the Africa Group by Highest Volume in Tonnes
Asian Group Pop.
(Mill
-
Ions)
Rural
Pop
%
Arable
Land
Top 5 Crops Top Global Crop Producers *
Benin 9.5 5.3 22.9 Cassava Yams Maize Seed Cotton Oil Palm
Fruit
Burkina-Faso 15.5 11.5 20.8 Sorghum Maize Millet Sugar Cane Seed Cotton
Cameroon 20.6 10 13.1 Cassava Plantains Oil Palm
Fruits
Sugar Cane Cocoyam *
Chad 11.7 9.2 3.9 Sorghum Groundnuts Millet Sugar Cane Yams
Cote D'Ivoire 18.9
7
9.4 9.1 Yams Cassava Sugar Cane Plantains Oil Palm
Fruit
Gabon 1.6 0.22 1.2 Plantains Sugar Cane Cassava Yams Cocoyam
Gambia 1.68 0.73 41 Groundnuts Millet Paddy Rice Oil Palm
Fruits
Maize
Guinea 10.9 7.1 11.8 Paddy Rice Cassava Oil Palm
Fruits
Plantains Maize
Guinea-Bissau 1.5 0.9 8.2 Paddy Rice Cashews Oil Palm
Fruits
Roots/Tubers Coconuts
Mali 13.9 9.1 5.6 Paddy Rice Millet Sorghum Maize Seed Cotton
Mozambique 23.9 16.5 6.4 Cassava Sugar Cane Maize Sweet
Potatoes
Coconuts *
Niger 15.9 13.1 12.3 Millet Cow Peas Sorghum Onions Groundnuts
Nigeria 159.
7
81.5 37.3 Cassava Yams Oil Palm
Fruits
Sorghum Maize *
Senegal 12.9
5
7.5 17.4 Sugar Cane Groundnuts Millet Paddy Rice Melons
Sierra Leone 5.7 3.5 23.4 Cassava Paddy Rice Vegetables Oil Palm
Fruits
Sweet
Potatoes
Togo 6.3 3.9 45.2 Cassava Yams Maize Sorghum Vegetables
Uganda 33.9
8
28.8 34.3 Plantains Cassava Sweet
Potato
Sugar Cane Maize *
Source: /E.