Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; cash crops - tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, and corn; subsistence crops - potatoes, cassava, sorghum, pulses; livestock - cattle, goats
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $215 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $2.15 billion
Currency: 1 Malawian kwacha (MK) = 100 tambala
Exchange rates: Malawian kwacha (MK) per US$1 - 7.8358 (August 1994), 4.4028 (1993), 3.6033 (1992), 2.8033 (1991), 2.7289 (1990), 2.7595 (1989)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Malawi:Transportation
Railroads: total: 789 km narrow gauge: 789 km 1.067-m gauge
Highways:
total: 13,135 km
paved: 2,364 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 251 km; earth,
improved earth 10,520 km
Inland waterways: Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km
Ports: Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkotakota