Editing Economy of El Salvador (section)

=== Agriculture ===
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File:Cotton-UsulutanSV.jpg|A cotton field, Usulután Department.
File:Dark roasted espresso blend coffee beans 2.jpg|Dark roasted coffee beans from [[Coffee production in El Salvador]]
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In 2018, El Salvador produced 7 million tons of [[sugarcane]], being heavily dependent on this product. In addition to sugarcane, the country produced 685 thousand tons of [[maize]], 119 thousand tons of [[coconut]], 109 thousand tons of [[sorghum]], 93 thousand tons of [[beans]], 80 thousand tons of [[coffee]], 64 thousand tons of [[Orange (fruit)|orange]], in addition to smaller yields of other agricultural products such as [[watermelon]], [[Xanthosoma|yautia]], [[apple]], [[manioc]], [[mango]], [[banana]], [[rice]] etc.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC/| title = El Salvador production in 2018, by FAO}}</ref>

The ultimate goal was to develop a rural middle class with a stake in a peaceful and prosperous future for El Salvador. At least 525,000 people—more than 12% of El Salvador's population at the time and perhaps 25% of the rural poor—benefited from agrarian reform, and more than 22% of El Salvador's total farmland was transferred to those who previously worked the land but did not own it. But when agrarian reform ended in 1990, about 150,000 landless families still had not benefited from the reform actions.

The 1992 peace accords made provisions for land transfers to all qualified ex-combatants of both the [[Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front|FMLN]] and [[Armed Forces of El Salvador|ESAF]], as well as to landless peasants living in former conflict areas. The United States undertook to provide $300 million for a national reconstruction plan. This included $60 million for land purchases and $17 million for agricultural credits. [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] remains actively involved in providing technical training, access to credit, and other financial services for many of the land beneficiaries.