The rural sector, including agriculture, livestock, fisheries, and forestry accounted for 23 percent of GDP in 1993, providing employment for about 75 percent of the population. Despite the potential offered by Guinea's diverse and fertile natural resources, agricultural performance has been disapointing during the past 25 years. Agricultural commodities, while accounting for the bulk of Guinea 's exports in l958, now represent about 15 percent of the value of exports. Cash crops include coffee, cocoa, cotton, pineapples, and mangoes.
Nevertheless, the abundance and diversity of natural resources, though inadequately exploited so far, offer a wide range of possibilities for inducing growth. In addition Guinea has a comparative advantage over a wide range of food and export crops even at prevailing yields, and low yields offer considerably scope for increasing production through improvements in cultivation practices and utilization of improved crop varieties.
Guinea expects the agriculture sector to grow at a rate of 3.6 percent per annum through 1996. The contributors to this growth are likely to be food crops, coffee, cotton, fruits, and fisheries. If the present incentive framework can be maintained, and infrastructure and services improved, a higher rate of growth can be expected in the rest of the l990s, making the rural sector a main engine of economic development.
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