This Article Agriculture in Malawi is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\n \nThe main economic products of Malawi are tobacco tea cotton groundnuts sugar and coffee. These have been among the main cash crops for the last century but tobacco has become increasingly predominant in the last quartercentury with a production in 2011 of 175000 tonnes.UN Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO FAOSTAT Over the last century tea and groundnuts have increased in relative importance while cotton has decreased.J G Pike 1969. Malawi A Political and Economic History London Pall Mall Press pp. 173 1768 183.ref The main food crops are maize cassava sweet potatoes sorghum bananas riceand Irish potatoes and cattle sheep and goats are raised. The main industries deal with agricultural processing of tobacco tea and sugar and timber products. The industrial production growth rate is estimated at 10 2009.