page_title: Mokhotlong District
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Mokhotlong District / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Mokhotlong vu depuis l'entrée en descendant du col de Sani. Lesotho, 2014.
context_page_description: Mokhotlong district is a district of Lesotho. It includes the highest terrain in the Maloti Mountains and the source of the Senqu River, Lesotho’s primary watershed. Mokhotlong is the capital or camptown, and only town in the district. Mokhotlong borders on the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa, with its north point bordering the Free State Province. Domestically, it borders on Butha-Buthe District in northwest, Leribe District in west, and Thaba-Tseka District in the south.
  As of 2006, the district had a population of 97,713 which was 5.21 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 4,075 which was 13.42 per cent of the total area of the country. The density of population in the district was 24.00 per sq. km. The total area planted in crops in 2009 was 16,420 hectares, which formed 4.07 per cent of the total area planted in crops in the country. The total agricultural production was 8,757 tonnes, which was 5.82 per cent of the total agricultural production in the country.
context_section_description: As of 2008, there were economically active people in the district: there were 66,290 employed people out of a total of 134,871 people in the district above 15 years of age. The employed population in the age group of 6–14 years was 4,042 out of a total of 37,468 people in the district in the age group. The labour force participation stood at 181.10. The number of people involved in subsistence agriculture is 2,958 and the number of people in other sectors was 1,084. The number of unemployed people in the district was 14,382 and the unemployment rate was 054. The total area planted in 2009 was 16,420 which formed 4.07 per cent of the total area planted in the country. The total production was 8,757 tonnes, which was 5.82 per cent of the totals in the country. The major crop was maize, while wheat, sorghum, beans and peas were the other crops planted. The total production of maize was 6,508 tonnes, beans was 877 tonnes, sorghum was 355 tonnes, peas was 178 tonnes and wheat was 839 tonnes as of 2008.
caption: A market in the district
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