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Excerpts from the report: The average size of farm in Senegal is 9 acres, according to the 1960 Census of Agriculture of Senegal. This is two or three times as large as average farms in the rainforest areas of tropical Africa, due to greater ease of clearing land in Senegal and the greater use of animal power there. Not many Senegalese farmers raise both crops and livestock; in general, crops are grown by crop farmers and livestock kept by livestock farmers. Peanuts are Senegal's main crop. Senegal is the world's second largest exporter of peanuts (after Nigeria) and the fifth largest producer of peanuts (after India, Mainland China, Nigeria, and the United States). In certain special localities, Senegalese farmers are commercial vegetable farmers, supplying Dakar and even shipping some vegetables abroad. Those grown include cabbages, carrots, tomatoes, green salad vegetables, green beans, squashes, and others. Livestock raising is not yet on much of a commercial basis. However, some observers envisage Senegal as a great cattle-growing country, supplying meat to the northern and equatorial areas of Africa and perhaps even shipping meat to Europe and the Middle East.