Food production and crop distribution in Africa

Africa has a wide variety of food crops, wheat, rice, corn, millet, sorghum, potatoes, etc., and specialty cassava, plantains, dates, potatoes, edible plantains, etc.. Africa's cash crops, especially tropical cash crops occupy an important position in the world, cotton, sisal, peanuts, oil palm, cashew nuts, sesame, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, tobacco, natural rubber, clove and other production is very high.

As one of the largest flower production and export markets in Africa, Kenya's flower industry has been a major feature of Kenya's industry. Gerbera and Gerbera daisy are native to South Africa and are among the earliest flower crops in Africa. Roses, gladioli, and Amaryllis are common export species in the African flower industry.

The macadamia nut is native to Australia and is also known as the macadamia nut. Since its introduction to South Africa in the 1960s, the South African macadamia industry has grown rapidly and is now able to compete with its native Australia. Sunflower is also grown as an agricultural crop, primarily for edible oil production. South Africa is a major producer of sunflower seeds. Sugar cane is grown over a wide area and South Africa is usually the most productive region in Africa for sugar cane.

The Cederberg region of the Western Cape in South Africa produces tea, including a herb native to South Africa, Louis Bois tea, also known as "African black tea" or "red bush tea". Oriental and Virginia are the main types of tobacco in Africa, and South Africa is a major producer of tobacco crops.

Yams, potatoes, avocados, tomatoes and onions are common vegetable crops in Africa. Fruit crop types include grapefruit, pear, plum, apricot, mango, peach, apple, melon, pineapple, guava, and banana.

Maize has a long history of cultivation and is widely distributed, with the greatest concentration in southern Africa, with South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Malawi being the major producers. East African highlands, North Africa, Egypt, Morocco and West Africa, Ghana, Guinea, Benin and other countries also have more distribution. Sorghum and maize are traditional food crops, with the Niger River and the Middle Nile being the two major sorghum-producing regions. Corn is more widely distributed, with Nigeria, Chad, and Niger being the main producers.

Wheat and barley are mainly distributed in the countries along the Mediterranean Sea and Southern Africa. Rice production is concentrated in Egypt and Madagascar and a few other countries; in recent years, the Gulf of Guinea coast, the middle reaches of the Niger River and the eastern part of the Congo Basin also began to grow in large quantities. Cassava is one of the major traditional food crops and is the main food for rural people in tropical Africa, with a distribution area of almost the whole continent, especially in the tropical areas between the south and 16 degree N latitude.