Agriculture Reference
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T A B L E 9.2. Continued
T A B L E 9.2. Continued
Percent
Arable
Percent
Arable
Area
a
Area
a
Country
Country
Macedonia
2,509
39
Saudi Arabia
1,951
0
Madagascar
59,159
43
Senegal
19,510
47
Malawi
11,959
52
Sierra Leone
7,203
50
Malaysia
32,669
20
Slovakia
4,815
59
Mali
124,852
18
Slovenia
2,004
50
Mauritania
104,383
1
Solomon Islands
2,802
9
Mexico
96,062
23
Somalia
64,448
7
Moldova Republic
3,331
84
South Africa
122,230
20
Mongolia
155,100
0
Spain
50,909
35
Morocco
39,658
21
Sri Lanka
6,574
47
Mozambique
79,894
70
Sudan
248,828
32
Myanmar
66,490
30
Suriname
14,429
54
Namibia
81,966
10
Swaziland
1,770
44
Nepal
14,725
11
Sweden
44,358
18
Netherlands
3,825
41
Switzerland
4,111
27
New Zealand
26,617
25
Syria
18,603
26
Nicaragua
12,909
32
Tajikistan
14,277
14
Niger
118,254
5
Tanzania
93,819
64
Nigeria
91,207
62
Thailand
51,603
52
Norway
31,808
2
Togo
5,720
72
Oman
31,009
0
Tunisia
5,720
72
Pakistan
79,847
6
Turkey
77,823
43
Panama
7,569
29
Turkmenistan
469,004
1
Papua New Guinea
466,480
19
Uganda
24,219
51
Paraguay
19,905
56
Ukraine
59,512
83
Peru
128,922
56
United Arab Emirates
7,613
0
Philippines
30,000
41
United Kingdom
24,418
52
Poland
30,983
70
United States
946,837
39
Portugal
8,780
44
Uruguay
17,907
77
Quatar
1,107
0
Uzbekistan
44,519
13
Romania
23,593
70
Venezuela
92,388
53
Rwanda
2,450
19
Vietnam
33,391
27
Source: (Abstracted
from
Food
and
Agriculture
Organization
of
the
United
Nations;
online
databases,
FAOASTAT, http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/country.html).
a
In thousands of hectares.
the same countries; however, these percentages give an idea of the land available for
food production.
Some countries, notably desert countries in the Middle East, are listed as having no
arable land because they have no rain-fed agriculture, and all agricultural production
depends on irrigation. These countries can and do, in some cases, have extensive
land devoted to agriculture and food production. Most of Egypt receives less than an
inch of rain per year and may receive no rain for many years. However, extensive
