Table 2.
Inorganic fertilizer use statistics from macro and LSMS-ISA data.
| Country | FAOSTATa | LSMS-ISAb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use (kg/ha) |
% of cultivating households using | Use (kg/ha) across all households |
Use (kg/ha) across only fertilizer using households |
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| Mean N | Mean P | Mean K | Mean nutrients | Mean total | Mean nutrients | Mean total | Mean N | Mean P | Mean K | Mean nutrients | ||
| Ethiopia | 10.4 | 10.8 | 0.0 | 21.2 | 55.5 | 45.0 | 25.2 | 81.0 | 23.0 | 22.5 | – | 45.5 |
| Malawi | 23.1 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 31.9 | 77.3 | 146.0 | 56.3 | 188.8 | 53.1 | 19.4 | 0.4 | 72.8 |
| Niger | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 17.0 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 26.3 | 7.6 | 2.6 | – | 10.3 |
| Nigeria | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 41.4 | 128.2 | 64.3 | 310.1 | 93.9 | 30.8 | 30.8 | 155.5 |
| Tanzania | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 5.7 | 16.9 | 16.2 | 7.7 | 95.6 | 32.0 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 45.6 |
| Uganda | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 37.5 | 11.5 | 8.3 | 1.0 | 20.7 |
| Average | 6.8 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 10.5 | 35.2 | 56.9 | 26.0 | 123.2 | 36.9 | 15.1 | 9.7 | 58.4 |
Notes: Nutrient values represent the actual nutrient content in all applied fertilizers. The “average” row includes simple (unweighted) averages across the statistics reported at the country level.
a
FAOSTAT data from 2010. Cultivated land defined as arable land plus land under permanent crop. See more details at FAOSTAT.
b
Authors’ calculations using the Living Standards Measurement Study Integrated Surveys on Agriculture: Ethiopia 2011/12, Malawi 2010/11, Niger 2011/12, Nigeria 2010/11, Tanzania 2010/11, Uganda 2010/11.