The external market of fruits and vegetables presents good opportunities in the neighbouring countries, Middle East and Europe. Spices such as black, sweet and hot peppers, chillies, ginger, onions, coriander, garlic onions, hermeric, cinnamon, and vanilla are important crops for both the domestic and export markets. The cocoa beans crop is a good small scale foreign exchange earner and is also an important source of income to smallholder cocoa producers. Dates, kapok and oilpalm are also produced. However, actual sugar production averages around 120,000 tonnes per annum.
Palm is a smallholder crop and it is an important source of edible oil.
Palm oil industry is generally underdeveloped with an average production of only 6,000 tons of palm oil per year. Tea is an estate crop.