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Table 6 Area covered under different seed classes of maize in the 13 surveyed African countries during the 2013/2014 main crop season

From: Characteristics of maize cultivars in Africa: How modern are they and how many do smallholder farmers grow?

Region/country

Modern cultivars

Local cultivars

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