Agriculture
-Total Area:
322,463 sq km
-Land Area:
318,003 sq km
-Water Area:
4,460 sq km
-Description of Climate:
tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October)
-Terrain:
mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
-Land use:
arable land: 8.99%
permanent crops: 13.65%
-Irrigated land:
727.5 sq km (2003)
-Total renewable water resources:
81.14 cu km (2011)
-Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 1.55 cu km/yr (41%/21%/38%)
per capita: 83.07 cu m/yr (2008)
-Natural hazards:
coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible
-Environment - current issues:
deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents
-Labor force:
7.746 million (2012 est.)
-Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 68%
-Agriculture - products:
coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, cassava (manioc), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
322,463 sq km
-Land Area:
318,003 sq km
-Water Area:
4,460 sq km
-Description of Climate:
tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October)
-Terrain:
mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
-Land use:
arable land: 8.99%
permanent crops: 13.65%
-Irrigated land:
727.5 sq km (2003)
-Total renewable water resources:
81.14 cu km (2011)
-Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 1.55 cu km/yr (41%/21%/38%)
per capita: 83.07 cu m/yr (2008)
-Natural hazards:
coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible
-Environment - current issues:
deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents
-Labor force:
7.746 million (2012 est.)
-Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 68%
-Agriculture - products:
coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, cassava (manioc), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
![Photo](/uploads/2/3/3/9/23397196/7610166.jpg)
A Cote D'voire people is taking cocoa bean it looks like it is a Substainable Agriculture.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/115701/An-agricultural-worker-picking-cacao-pods-Cote-dIvoire
![Photo](/uploads/2/3/3/9/23397196/615444.jpg)
Young children are breaking cocoa bean to take the cocoa, it look like a commercial agriculture.
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20110919-cote-ivoire-place-agriculture-economie-nationale
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20110919-cote-ivoire-place-agriculture-economie-nationale
![Photo](/uploads/2/3/3/9/23397196/7389348.jpg)
Two young women are holding wood , it look like a subsitence agriculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cifemrurales.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cifemrurales.JPG
![Photo](/uploads/2/3/3/9/23397196/2306519.jpg)
A young women and two boy are sionning between two line of lettuce it look like a subsitence agriculture.
http://jssnews.com/2010/04/29/au-nom-du-sionisme-laide-consequente-disrael-a-la-cote-divoir/
http://jssnews.com/2010/04/29/au-nom-du-sionisme-laide-consequente-disrael-a-la-cote-divoir/
![Photo](/uploads/2/3/3/9/23397196/7748155.jpg)
A young women and two boy are sionning between two line of lettuce it look like a subsitence agriculture.
http://jssnews.com/2010/04/29/au-nom-du-sionisme-laide-consequente-disrael-a-la-cote-divoir/
http://jssnews.com/2010/04/29/au-nom-du-sionisme-laide-consequente-disrael-a-la-cote-divoir/