Table 6.
Area covered under different seed classes of maize in the 13 surveyed African countries during the 2013/2014 main crop season
| Region/country | Modern cultivars |
Local cultivars |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hybrids | OPVs | Total | Named | Unidentified | Total | |
| EA avg. | 52.2 | 29.4 | 81.6 | 10.1 | 8.3 | 18.4 |
| Ethiopia | 66.0 | 11.3 | 77.3 | 11.1 | 11.7 | 22.7 |
| Kenya | 65.0 | 17.1 | 82.1 | 17.5 | 0.5 | 17.9 |
| Tanzania | 40.2 | 31.7 | 71.8 | 9.4 | 18.7 | 28.2 |
| Uganda | 37.6 | 57.6 | 95.2 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 4.8 |
| SA avg. | 50.3 | 4.7 | 55.0 | 38.6 | 6.4 | 45.0 |
| Angola | 4.1 | 1.5 | 5.6 | 89.5 | 4.8 | 94.4 |
| Malawi | 65.7 | 12.8 | 78.5 | 14.6 | 6.9 | 21.5 |
| Mozambique | 24.9 | 5.1 | 30.0 | 70.0 | 0.0 | 70.0 |
| Zambia | 61.5 | 2.3 | 63.8 | 18.5 | 17.7 | 36.2 |
| Zimbabwe | 95.4 | 2.0 | 97.5 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| WA avg. | 3.7 | 32.3 | 36.0 | 20.6 | 43.5 | 64.1 |
| Benin | 0.0 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 28.6 | 58.7 | 87.2 |
| Ghana | 3.1 | 50.3 | 53.4 | 25.5 | 21.1 | 46.6 |
| Mali | 0.0 | 51.2 | 51.2 | 13.1 | 35.7 | 48.8 |
| Nigeria | 11.6 | 14.7 | 26.3 | 15.4 | 58.4 | 73.7 |
| SSA avg. | 36.5 | 20.8 | 57.3 | 24.3 | 18.4 | 42.7 |