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4.0 percent, have significant amount of OIC’s agricultural land. Regarding the arable land, the
country ranking list changes slightly, and Nigeria becomes the first country which has a highest
share of arable land with 11.1 percent in the OIC. Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Turkey
are the following countries which contribute to OIC’s total arable land with 9.9 percent, 9.6
percent, 7.7 percent, and 6.7 percent, respectively. Nonetheless, most of the OIC Member
Countries’ agricultural area mainly consists of permanent meadows and pastures which hinder
to produce more and generate additional income (Annex 14).
2.2. Crop Productions
The OIC Member Countries pursue a wide range of crop and livestock production system
because of the fact that they have different agro-ecological zone, agricultural infrastructure,
and producing and consuming habit. Hence, a large variety of agricultural products are grown
in the OIC as a whole. And its Member States have different yield level depending on their level
of using agricultural mechanization and other agricultural inputs as well as climatic conditions.
In terms of the volume of agriculture production, as of 2014, OIC Member Countries
contributed 395 million tons to the world cereal production, representing 13.5 percent of the
world total cereals production. Even though the cereal production increased by moret than 40
percent in the period of 2000-2014, the share of OIC Member Countries in the world cereal
production showed a very slight increase. As of 2014, 69 million tons of oil crops were
produced in the OIC, where it was 31 million tons in 2000. This substantial amount of oil crops
production in the OIC also stimulated the share of OIC Member Countries in the world oil crops
production. Therefore, it increased from 28.6 percent to 35.0 percent in the period of 2000-
2014. Among the commodity groups in the OIC, oil crops are the highest share in the world
with an increasing trend.
Figure 12. Crop Productions in the OIC and its Share in the World
Source: Calculated by Using FAO online databases, 2015
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395
31 69 92 127 113 170
2.060
2.817
110 197
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1.139
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35,0
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Cereal Oilcrops Fruit Vegetable
Million Tons Percent
OIC (Left Axis) World (Left Axis) OIC Share in the World (Right Axis)