Togo

The agricultural sector employs approximately 70 percent of the country’s workforce and plays a crucial economic and social role in Togo, contributing to food security, creating jobs, and generating income as well as providing goods and services. Agriculture accounts for 38 percent of Togo’s gross domestic product (GDP): 26.0 percent from foodcrops, 3.4 percent from cash crops, 5.1 percent from livestock products, 1.4 percent from fishery products and aquaculture, and 2.1 percent from forestry production. It produces 20 percent of the country’s export earnings (Togo 2009). The Togolese agricultural sector is dominated by the small-scale rainfed farming of millet, sorghum, maize, and rice.