MOZAMBIQUE'S AGRICULTURE
Total Area: 799,380 sq km
Land Area: 786,380 sq km
Water Area: 13,000 sq km
Climate Description: Mozambique has a tropical to subtropical climate with two main seasons: the rainy season and the dry season. Rainfall is heaviest along the coast, and it decreases further north and south.
Terrain Description: Mozambique's terrain is mostly coastal lowlands, though there are uplands in the center, high plateaus in the northwest, and mountains in the west.
Arable Land Use: 6.4%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.3%
Irrigated Land: 1,180 sq km
Total Renewable Water Resources: 217.1 cu km
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 0.88 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 46.05 cu m/yr
Natural Hazards Description: severe droughts, devastating cyclones and floods in central and southern provinces
Environmental Current Issues: increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences, desertification, pollution of surface and coastal waters, elephant poaching for ivory
Total Labor Force: 12.92 million
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 81%
Agricultural Products Description: cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava, corn, coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits, potatoes, sunflowers, beef, poultry
Land Area: 786,380 sq km
Water Area: 13,000 sq km
Climate Description: Mozambique has a tropical to subtropical climate with two main seasons: the rainy season and the dry season. Rainfall is heaviest along the coast, and it decreases further north and south.
Terrain Description: Mozambique's terrain is mostly coastal lowlands, though there are uplands in the center, high plateaus in the northwest, and mountains in the west.
Arable Land Use: 6.4%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.3%
Irrigated Land: 1,180 sq km
Total Renewable Water Resources: 217.1 cu km
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 0.88 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 46.05 cu m/yr
Natural Hazards Description: severe droughts, devastating cyclones and floods in central and southern provinces
Environmental Current Issues: increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences, desertification, pollution of surface and coastal waters, elephant poaching for ivory
Total Labor Force: 12.92 million
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 81%
Agricultural Products Description: cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava, corn, coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits, potatoes, sunflowers, beef, poultry
A young man transports pineapples on a bike. The demand for tropical fruit from Mozambique has been on the rise in recent years.
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Mozambique's Ministry of Agriculture has recently taken new measures, such as the methods pictured, to improve agriculture in Mozambique.
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