Rice Production in Ecuador

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General information

  • GNI per capita PPP$, 2011: 8,310
  • Internal renewable water resources, 2011: 432 km3/year
  • Incoming water flow, 2011: ?7.6 km3/year
  • Main food consumed, 2009: rice, wheat, meat, milk, bananas, meat, plantains, vegetables, sugar and sweeteners
  • Rice consumption, 2009: 45.7 kg milled rice per person per year

Production seasons

 

Planting

Harvesting
Winter
Dec-Feb
Apr-Jun
Summer
May-Jul
Sep-Dec

Write-up taken from the IRRI’s Rice Almanac (2013):

Ecuador, on the tropical Pacific coast of South America, is a small country; the total land area is only 256,370 km2, extending from coastal plains where most of the population lives and where cash crops, including rice, are grown, to mountainous regions in which agriculture is more at a subsistence level.  The population was 14.7 million in 2011, with 28.7% of the workforce employed in agriculture. Arable land constitutes 4.8% of the land area and agriculture accounted for 7.5% of GDP in 2010.

Source: FAOSTAT database online as of November 2012.

 

 

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