Togo

General information GNI per capita at PPP$, 2011: 1,040 Internal renewable water resources, 2011: 11.5 km3/year Incoming water flow, 2011: 3.2 km3/year Main food consumed, 2009: starchy roots, maize, sorghum, vegetables including oils, rice, fermented beverages, meat, pulses, wheat Rice consumption, 2009: 21 kg milled rice per person per year

Production season   Planting Harvesting Main May Oct-Nov

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

Togo forms a thin strip facing the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, covering 56,785 km² between Benin and Ghana; inland, it borders Burkina Faso. The land consists of a coastal plain with extensive wetlands rising to hilly in the center and to gently rolling savanna in the north. Nearly half (40%) of the land is arable. The climate ranges from hot humid tropical in the coastal south to semiarid in the inland north. The population is 6.1 million (2011) and largely rural. Agriculture accounts for 53% of the workforce and 31.9% of GDP. Demand for rice has been increasing and, although domestic production is increasing, much rice is still imported.

Source: FAOSTAT database online and *National Rice Development Strategy Togo, October 2010.

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