Ousseynou Ndoye and David Kaimowitz (1999) has shown that in 1984 alone farmers in the Southwest Province and the Mungo Valley who had swung their focus towards the cultivation of cocoa and coffee used 458,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of cocoa and coffee as opposed to 342,000 hectares of land that was used for food crop production.
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