Editing Mali (section)

=== Agriculture ===
Mali's key industry is agriculture. Cotton is the country's largest crop export and is exported west throughout Senegal and Ivory Coast.<ref name=Goldenhope>{{cite news | first=Briony | last=Hale | title=Mali's Golden Hope | date=13 May 1998 | work=BBC News | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1945588.stm | access-date=4 June 2008 | archive-date=11 July 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711170446/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1945588.stm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=marshall>{{cite book | last = Cavendish | first = Marshall | title = World and Its Peoples: Middle East, Western Asia, and Northern Africa | publisher = Marshall Cavendish | year = 2007 | location = Tarrytown, New York | isbn = 978-0-7614-7571-2 | page = 1367 | url = https://archive.org/details/worlditspeoplesm0000unse | url-access = registration }}</ref> During 2002, 620,000 tons of cotton were produced in Mali but cotton prices declined significantly in 2003.<ref name=Goldenhope/><ref name=marshall/> In addition to cotton, Mali produces rice, [[millet]], [[Maize|corn]], vegetables, tobacco, and tree crops. Gold, livestock, and agriculture amount to 80% of Mali's exports.<ref name="state"/>

Eighty percent of Malian workers are employed in agriculture. 15% of Malian workers are employed in the service sector.<ref name=marshall/> Seasonal variations lead to regular [[temporary employment|temporary unemployment]] of agricultural workers.<ref>{{cite book |ref=May| last = May | first = Jacques Meyer | title = The Ecology of Malnutrition in the French Speaking Countries of West Africa and Madagascar | publisher=Macmillan Publishing Company |date= 1968 | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-02-848960-5 |page=291}}</ref>