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SADC Country Profiles
Country Agriculture Industry
ANGOLA
bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing, brewing, tobacco products, sugar; textiles; ship repair
BOTSWANA livestock, sorghum, maize, millet, beans, sunflowers, groundnuts diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock processing; textiles
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, quinine, cassava (tapioca), palm oil, bananas, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products mining (diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, coltan zinc), mineral processing, consumer products (including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods and beverages), cement, commercial ship repair
LESOTHO corn, wheat, pulses, sorghum, barley; livestock food, beverages, textiles, apparel assembly, handicrafts, construction, tourism
MADAGASCAR coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts; livestock products meat processing, seafood, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism
MALAWI
tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes, cassava (tapioca), sorghum, pulses, groundnuts, Macadamia nuts; cattle, goats tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods
MAURITIUS sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses; cattle, goats; fish food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles, clothing, mining, chemicals, metal products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery, tourism
MOZAMBIQUE cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava (tapioca), corn, coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits, potatoes, sunflowers; beef, poultry food, beverages, chemicals (fertilizer, soap, paints), aluminum, petroleum products, textiles, cement, glass, asbestos, tobacco
NAMIBIA millet, sorghum, peanuts, grapes; livestock; fish meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products; mining (diamonds, lead, zinc, tin, silver, tungsten, uranium, copper)
SOUTH AFRICA corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; beef, poultry, mutton, wool, dairy products mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textiles, iron and steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs, commercial ship repair
SWAZILAND sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep coal, wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates, textile and apparel
TANZANIA coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums), cashew nuts, tobacco, cloves, corn, wheat, cassava (tapioca), bananas, fruits, vegetables; cattle, sheep, goats agricultural processing (sugar, beer, cigarettes, sisal twine); diamond, gold, and iron mining, salt, soda ash; cement, oil refining, shoes, apparel, wood products, fertilizer
ZAMBIA
corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), coffee; cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture
ZIMBABWE corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep, goats, pigs mining (coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel; wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages