Other illustrative data reported on a commodityby-commodity basis also show how important small-scale tree crop production is in tropical nations: approximately 30% of oil palmplanted land in Malaysia is managed by smallholders , while more than 65% of all coffee produced worldwide comes from small farms . The equivalent figure for cocoa is 90%, while more than 75% of all natural rubber produced
between the years 1998 and 2003 was estimated to come from land
holdings smaller than 40 hectares . Again,around 75% and 50% of tea grown in Sri Lanka and Kenya, respectively,is considered to come from small farms