The largest crop in the world in 2019 was sugarcane from Brazil followed by sugarcane from India and corn from the United States. Brazil produced more than 750 million metric tons of sugarcane in 2019. China produced five of the ten largest crops in the world in 2019.

Under the current conditions in Africa, the most extensive area of land (455 million hectares) is suited to the cultivation of cassava, followed by maize (418 million hectares), sweet potato (406 million hectares), soybean (371 million hectares) and sorghum (354 million hectares).

Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world’s most popular food crops. In fact, these crops are often the basis for food staples. A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population’s diet.

The main agricultural products grown locally are peanuts (groundnuts), rice, millet and sorghum. The main fruits produced include mangoes and cashews. These are also the major cash crops, while rice is the staple crop. Approximately only 38 percent of the total land area of the country or about 430,000 Ha is arable.

Exports: The top exports of Gambia are Rough Wood ($46.8M), Coconuts, Brazil Nuts, and Cashews ($32.2M), Sawn Wood ($15.4M), Refined Petroleum ($11.6M), and Fish Oil ($10.4M), exporting mostly to China ($67.9M), India ($40.1M), Mali ($11.9M), Chile ($9.58M), and South Korea ($5.9M).

Problems of Agriculture In Nigeria with examples

• Non-Implementation of Government Policies.
• Lack of Modernization and Mechanization.
• Illiteracy.
• Ignorance.
• Lack of Funds.
• Poor Infrastructure/ Lack of Social Amenities.
• Absence of Modern Storage/Processing Facilities.
• Loss of Land to Natural Disaster.

Reduction in the supply of fire wood and increasing demand for fuel in the rural areas due to increase in population has further complicated the problem. Chemical fertilizers are costly and are often beyond the reach of the poor farmers. The fertilizer problem is, therefore, both acute and complex.

Two problems of agriculture in India are : Land holdings are small due to farm fragmentation. 2. Farmers are poor and not educated so cannot afford modem technology and implements.

But it has been declining for generations, and the closing days of 2019 find small farms pummeled from every side: a trade war, severe weather associated with climate change, tanking commodity prices related to globalization, political polarization, and corporate farming defined not by a silo and a red barn but …

“We have seen a 30-year decline in almost every single metric. They’re all bad. The number of jobs lost, the average net income down 45 percent since 2013. Total acreage farmed nationwide dropped 1.6 percent, while the average farm size increased by the same percentage, to 441 acres.

For the same reasons that farmers throughout history have not been able to make money. Their particular product is homogenous across producers, and almost perfectly substitutable with other products. Farmers have essentially no market power. No market power, no profits.

According to salary data for farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers from May 2016, the average salary is $75,790 a year. In contrast, they make a median salary of $66,360, with half getting lower salaries and half being paid more.

The reasons are three-fold: the lack of accountability among farmer cooperative leaders; cooperatives and farmers’ associations are formed mainly to access government dole-outs; and the government agency (e.g., CDA), which has oversight responsibility on cooperatives, is oriented towards regulations of cooperatives …

Though the reasons vary from commodity to commodity, the decline can largely be attributed to backed up supply chains, market losses, and shifts in consumption. Corn: In addition to a many-year glut, corn markets have been severely affected by falling demand.

The reality of farmers being rich in the United States is probably only in comparison to other nation’s farmer’s incomes, since on a level playing field, farmers by in large are not rich in the United States.

Texas, Indiana, Minnesota and Missouri among states reporting loss of land in farms. The total number of farms in the United States is estimated at 2.019 million for 2020, down 4,400 farms from 2019, according to the February 2021 Farms and Land in Farms report issued by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Yes, farmers are rich in many ways, but farmers are not wealthy. They have a full life filled with nature and family, and the fulfillment of seeing the fruit of their labor in tangible ways. Farmers also understand the magnitude and importance of their work on a daily basis.

Median farm income earned by farm households is forecast to increase in 2020 to $767 from $296 in 2019, and then decline to $495 in 2021.