Agriculture

How the season is going, what staples cost, where land and water are being invested in, and where processing is missing.

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Value added by agriculture, forestry and fishing across SADCUS$86.8bn11.0% of output · +3.4% a year, last five years

SADC exports of the pillar's goodsUS$24.0bn2024

Deals in the last 12 months38US$976m where the value is confirmed · 100 tracked in all

Subsectors109 with trade data

What this page answers

How is this season going, district by district?
What are staple prices doing in each market?
Where are the cropland, irrigation schemes, dams and large land deals?
What does each country grow and export raw, and where is the processing gap?

Angola has SADC's largest agriculture, forestry and fishing sector, at US$25.9bn

Value added by agriculture, forestry and fishing, US$, latest year, with its share of each economy

AngolaUS$25.9bn22.6% of the economy

TanzaniaUS$21.4bn28.1% of the economy

South AfricaUS$11.3bn3.1% of the economy

DRCUS$7.7bn10.9% of the economy

MozambiqueUS$5.7bn28.6% of the economy

ZimbabweUS$4.0bn9.2% of the economy

MadagascarUS$3.9bn24.5% of the economy

MalawiUS$3.2bn28.3% of the economy

NamibiaUS$975m8.1% of the economy

ZambiaUS$717m3.0% of the economy

MauritiusUS$637m4.9% of the economy

ComorosUS$541m35.8% of the economy

EswatiniUS$356m7.7% of the economy

BotswanaUS$332m1.8% of the economy

LesothoUS$158m7.7% of the economy

SeychellesUS$53m2.9% of the economy

Source: UN Statistics Division·dotzedw Insights Centre

Angola leads SADC on agriculture (us$)

Agriculture, forestry and fishing, value added (US$), US$, latest year for each country. Click a bar for that country's agriculture page.

Source: World Bank·dotzedw Insights Centre

Where it sits

Output per worker in each country

Mauritius gets the most from each worker in agriculture, forestry and fishing

Value added per person working in agriculture, forestry and fishing, US$, 2024, with the industry's share of each country's jobs and output. SADC median US$1,194.

MauritiusUS$21,6975% of jobs, 5% of output

South AfricaUS$11,6145% of jobs, 3% of output

EswatiniUS$8,60515% of jobs, 8% of output

ComorosUS$5,46634% of jobs, 36% of output

NamibiaUS$4,73823% of jobs, 8% of output

AngolaUS$3,65252% of jobs, 23% of output

BotswanaUS$2,05218% of jobs, 2% of output

ZimbabweUS$1,19455% of jobs, 9% of output

TanzaniaUS$1,01365% of jobs, 28% of output

LesothoUS$69231% of jobs, 8% of output

MalawiUS$64165% of jobs, 28% of output

MozambiqueUS$55473% of jobs, 29% of output

DRCUS$35859% of jobs, 11% of output

MadagascarUS$35070% of jobs, 25% of output

ZambiaUS$17855% of jobs, 3% of output

Source: UN Statistics Division and ILO·dotzedw Insights Centre

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Subsectors

10 in this pillar

Grains and staples

Tracks: Maize, wheat, sorghum, rice and cassava; harvests, yields, crop estimates, stocks, prices, import needs and export bans.
Signals ahead: Rainfall in the growing months, planting intentions, export bans in neighbouring countries.

Select a figure for its trend. Source: CEPII BACI, dotzedw deals tracker.

Trade in detail

SADC sold US$2.4bn of grains and staples abroad in 2024, up 153.8% on five years earlier

Exports and imports of the products in this subsector by the 16 SADC countries, US$ (HS 10, 11, 0714)

Source: CEPII BACI·dotzedw Insights Centre

Largest exporters, 2024

South AfricaUS$1.7bn

TanzaniaUS$490m

ZambiaUS$60m

MauritiusUS$53m

MozambiqueUS$49m

LesothoUS$23m

ZimbabweUS$20m

NamibiaUS$18m

Where the exports go

SADCUS$1.8bn

Rest of AfricaUS$463m

Rest of the worldUS$41m

European UnionUS$27m

United Arab EmiratesUS$20m

United KingdomUS$12m

United StatesUS$5.3m

ChinaUS$5.1m

Main products, 2024

Maize (100590)US$1.0bn

Rice (100630)US$381m

Wheat (100119)US$142m

Maize and other flour (110220)US$142m

Cereal groats, meal and pellets (110313)US$138m

Maize (100510)US$112m

Each country's trade in grains and staples every year since 2012, by partner is part of the Individual plan

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