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AGRICULTURAL AND FISH PRODUCTION Year 2002 Introduction This issue of the Economic and Social indicators presents data on agricultural and fish production for the Island of Mauritius for the year 2002, as well as revised figures for year 2001.

Table 1 shows area harvested and production in respect of the main agricultural crops while table 2 shows production of the main agro-industrial products.

Details on the sugar industry and foodcrops are given at Tables 3 and 6 respectively.
It is to be noted that the production of agricultural crops (sugarcane, tea leaves, tobacco leaves and foodcrops) in 2002 has been adversely affected by the passage of cyclone Dina in January of the same year.

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Sugar cane The unfavourable climatic conditions that prevailed in 2002 resulted in a decrease of 15.9% in the production of cane : 4,873,673 tonnes in 2002 as compared to 5,792,325 tonnes in 2001.
Total area harvested declined by 933 hectares (-1.3%) from 73,197 hectares in 2001 to 72,264 hectares in 2002 while the yield per hectare decreased by 14.8% from 79.13 tonnes to 67.44 tonnes.

The average extraction rate was 10.70% as compared to 11.15% in 2001 (-4.0%), yielding 520,887 tonnes of sugar as compared to 645,598 tonnes in 2001.
The 2003 crop has been slightly affected by cyclone Gerry which visited Mauritius in February and the Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture has estimated the production of sugar to be around 600,000 tonnes.

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Tea Area under tea plantation increased by 3.0% from 660 hectares in 2001 to 680 hectares in 2002.

On the other hand, production of green tea leaves decreased by 7.7%: 6,870 tonnes as compared to 7,440 tonnes for 2001.
Production of black tea dropped by 9.0% from 1,517 tonnes in 2001 to 1,381 tonnes in 2002.

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Tobacco An area of 351 hectares under tobacco cultivation was harvested in 2002, which is 6.6% lower than the 376 hectares in 2001.

The production of tobacco leaves has declined by 21.7% from 609 tonnes in 2001 to 477 tonnes in 2002.

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Foodcrops Data on foodcrops production are supplied by the Agricultural Research and Extension Unit (AREU).
Figures are therafter adjusted to take into account backyard production, namely banana, eddoes, manioc and sweet potato.

Compared to 2001, production of foodcrops in the year 2002 showed a fall of 18.9% from 129,119 tonnes in 2001 to 104,747 tonnes in 2002.

Area harvested registered a decrease of 9.4% from 7,918 hectares in 2001 to 7,174 hectares.

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Livestock The production of beef from live cattle increased by 9.2% in year 2002 to reach 2,454 tonnes against 2,248 tonnes in 2001.
Beef production from the slaughter of imported cattle went up by 19.9%, from 1,873 tonnes to 2,246 tonnes whilst local beef production (including live cattle from Rodrigues) fell significantly by 44.5%, from 375 tonnes in 2001 to 208 tonnes.

Local production accounted for 8.5% of total beef production.

The production of goat meat and mutton witnessed a 23.7% rise: 141 tonnes in 2002 against 114 tonnes in 2001.

The share of local production, inclusive of imports from Rodrigues, was 50.0%.
Production of pork decreased by 14.3% from 882 tonnes in 2001 to 756 tonnes in 2002.

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Poultry Production of poultry went up by 7.7% from 27,200 tonnes in 2001 to 29,305 tonnes in 2002.

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Fish In 2002, total fish production rose by 3.9% from 8,794 tonnes in 2001 to 9,136 tonnes.

Fresh coastal fish catch registered an increase of 11.2% and other catch (tuna, bank, etc) went up by 1.7%.
Central Statistics Office Ministry of Economic Development, Financial Services and Corporate Affairs Port Louis April 2003 CONTACT PERSON Mr. B.Unmar Statistician (Agriculture Unit) Central Statistics Office Rose Hill Tel.
467-2944/5 Fax 465-0941 Email: bunmar@mail.gov.mu Table of Contents: Introduction Table 1 - Agricultural crops: Area harvested and production, 2001 - 2002 Table 2 - Production of agro-industrial products, 2001 - 2002 Table 3.1 - Sugar Industry - Field statistics, 2001- 2002 Table 3.2 - Sugar Industry - Factory statistics, 2001 - 2002 Table 4 - Tea - Production of green leaves by type of producer, 2001 - 2002 Table 5 - Tobacco - Area harvested and production of leaf, 2001 - 2002 Table 6 - Foodcrops: area harvested, production and yield per hectare, 2001 - 2002 Table 1 - Agricultural crops: Area harvested and production, 2001 - 2002 Crops Area harvested (hectares) Production (tonnes) Area harvested (hectares) Production (tonnes) Sugarcane 73,197 5,792,325 72,264 4,873,673 2001 1 2002 ³ Tea (green leaves) Tobacco 660 2 376 7,440 609 680 2 351 6,870 477 Foodcrops 7,918 129,119 7,244 104,747 ¹ Revised |² Area under cultivation |³ Provisional Table 2 - Production of agro-industrial products, 2001 - 2002 Agro- industrial product Sugar Tea (manufactured) Beef ¹ Local (incl.
imports from Rodrigues) Imported Goat meat and mutton ¹ Pork ¹ Poultry Milk Fish ² Coastal Other (tuna,bank,etc) Unit tonnes 2001 3 2002 4 645,598 520,887 " " " " " " " 1,517 2,248 (375) 1,381 2,454 (208) (1,873) (2,246) 114 882 141 756 27,200 29,305 000 Litres tonnes " " 4,000 8,794 (2,025) (6,769) 4,000 9,136 (2,252) (6,884) ¹ Comprises abattoir slaughters only |² Fresh weight equivalent |³ Revised |4 Provisional Table 3.1 - Sugar Industry - Field statistics, 2001- 2002 Ownership Area harvested (hectares) 2001 Cane produced (tonnes) Yield (tonnes per hectare) Area harvested (hectares) 2002 1 Cane produced (tonnes) 1.
Estate 35,495 3,139,431 88.45 29,619 2,292,568 2.

Metayers 1,101 63,806 57.95 1,073 50,353 Yield (tonnes per hectare) 77.40 46.93 3.

Planters 36,601 2,589,088 70.74 41,572 2,530,752 60.88 TOTAL 73,197 5,792,325 79.13 72,264 4,873,673 67.44 ¹ Provisional Table 3.2 - Sugar Industry - Factory statistics, 2001 - 2002 Details 1.

Tonnage of canes crushed 2.

Extraction rate (commercial sugar recovered % cane) Unit tonnes % 3.

Average polarisation degrees 4.

Average yield of sugar tonnes per hectare 5.


Average tonnes of cane per tonne of sugar tonnes 6.

Production of sugar - White - Raw - Special 7.

Molasses ¹ Provisional " " " " " 2001 2002 1 5,788,157 4,870,051 11.15 10.70 98.5 8.82 8.97 645,598 22,676 546,983 75,939 174,095 98.5 7.21 9.35 520,887 7,091 443,180 70,616 140,814 Table 4 - Tea - Production of green leaves by type of producer, 2001 - 2002 (Tonnes) Type of Producer 1.

Estates 2.

Metayers 2001 1 1,106 2002 ² 830 2,416 2,182 3.


Free planters 2,792 2,669 4.

Planters in Co-operatives Societies 1,126 1,189 TOTAL 7,440 6,870 ¹Revised|² Provisional Table 5 - Tobacco - Area harvested and production of leaf, 2001 - 2002 Variety Area harvested (hectares) Production (tonnes) Area harvested (hectares) Production (tonnes) 2001 1 2002² 1.

Virginia (flue-cured) 2.
Amarello (air-cured) TOTAL 336 40 376 557 52 609 320 31 351 444 34 477 ¹Revised|² Provisional Table 6 - Foodcrops: area harvested, production and yield per hectare, 2001 - 2002 Foodcrops 2001 1 2002 ² Area harvested (hectares) Production (tonnes) Yield per hectare (tonnes) Area harvested (hectares) Production (tonnes) Yield per hectare (tonnes) Potato Maize Groundnut Onion Ginger Garlic Chillies Tomato Beans and Peas Cabbage Cauliflower Brinjal Creepers Other vegetables Banana Pineapple TOTAL Source: Agricultural Research and Extension Unit (AREU) and CSO estimates ¹Revised|² Provisional 104747