rtilizer, beverages

Agriculture: most important sector, contributing one-third to GDP and
80% to exports; cash crops include coffee, cocoa beans, timber,
bananas, palm kernels, rubber; food crops - corn, rice, manioc, sweet
potatoes; not self-sufficient in bread grain and dairy products

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis; mostly for local
consumption; some international drug trade; transshipment point for
Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin to Europe and occasionally to the
US

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $356 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $5.2 billion

Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1
- 529.43 (January 1995), 555.20 (1994), 283.16 (1993), 264.69 (1992),
282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990)
note: beginning 12 January 1994, the CFA franc was devalued to CFAF
100 per French franc from CFAF 50 at which it had been fixed since
1948

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Cote D'ivoire:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 660 km (25 km double track)
narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge

Highways:
total: 46,600 km
paved: 3,600 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone, improved earth 32,000 km; unimproved
earth 11,000 km

Inland waterways: 980 km navigable rivers, canals, and numerous
coastal lagoons

Ports: Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro

Merchant marine:
total: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 49,671 GRT/69,216 DWT
ships by type: chemical tanker 1, container 2, oil tanker 1,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 1

Airports:
total: 40
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
with paved runways under 914 m: 11
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 6
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 16

@Cote D'ivoire:Communications

Telephone system: 87,700 telephones; well-developed by African
standards but operating well below capacity; consists of open-wire
lines and radio relay microwave links
local: NA
intercity: NA microwave radio relay
international: 2 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) earth
stations; 2 coaxial submarine cables

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 71, FM 0, shortwave 13
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 18
televisions: NA

@Cote D'ivoire:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air