Rice Production in The Gambia

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General information

  • GNI per capita at PPP$, 2011: 2,060
  • Internal renewable water resources, 2011: 3 km3/year
  • Incoming water flow, 2011: 5 km3/year
  • Main food consumed, 2009: rice, millet and sorghum, oils and fats, sugar and sweeteners, wheat, maize, milk
  • Rice consumption, 2009: 60.6 kg milled rice per person per year

Production seasons

 

Planting

Harvesting
Main
May-Jun
Oct-Nov
Off
Jan-Feb
May-Jun

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

The Gambia is a very small tropical nation of 11,300 km2, forming an east-west strip of land along the Gambia River to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean. Senegal surrounds the country apart from its 80-km coastline. The vegetation is forest and rainforest but large areas have been deforested for firewood and agriculture. About 40% of the land is arable. In 2011, agriculture occupied 76% of the workforce in the population of 1.78 million and contributed 29.9% of GDP.

Source: FAOSTAT database online as of November 2012.

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