{"id":29,"date":"2013-07-07T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/agricultural-land\/"},"modified":"2014-06-28T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T13:05:59","slug":"agricultural-land","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/agricultural-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Land in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi has a total land area of 25,650 sq km of which 21,500 is agriculture land. Agricultural land includes arable land and land under permanent crops and pastures. The country has substantial natural resources including fertile soils, sunshine and regular rainfalls. The fertile land can support the growth of many varieties of crops including cash and food crops.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from crops, the land supports forests, swamps, savannah and lakes and provides pasture to cattle goats and sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy employing over 90% of the work force and contributes about 30% to the GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Land in Burundi has been summarized to include the following<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/land-summary-in-burundi\/\">High Level Summary of Land in Burundi<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/foreign-direct-investment-in-land\/\">Ownership of Land by Foreign Investors<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/agricultural-land\/\">Burundi Agricultural Land<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>sources<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/usaidlandtenure.net\/sites\/default\/files\/country-profiles\/full-reports\/USAID_Land_Tenure_Burundi_Profile.pdf\">http:\/\/usaidlandtenure.net\/sites\/default\/files\/country-profiles\/full-reports\/USAID_Land_Tenure_Burundi_Profile.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/usaidlandtenure.net\/sites\/default\/files\/USAID_Land_Tenure_Burundi_Completion_Report_0.pdf\">http:\/\/usaidlandtenure.net\/sites\/default\/files\/USAID_Land_Tenure_Burundi_Completion_Report_0.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi has a total land area of 25,650 sq km of which 21,500 is agriculture land. Agricultural land includes arable land and land under permanent crops and pastures. The country has substantial natural resources including fertile soils, sunshine and regular rainfalls. The fertile land can support the growth of many varieties of crops including cash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}