Agriculture Reference
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Table 8.1
Plantation crop production, harvested area and average yield adapted from FAOSTAT
2010a
a
Crop categories and crops
World production
(tonnes)
World area
harvested (ha)
Average
yield (Hg/
Ha)
Average yield
(t/ha)*
Beverages
Coffee green beans
8,228,018
10,234,363
8,040
0.80
Cocoa beans fermented dried
4,187,587
9,541,698
4,389
0.44
Tea—manufactured
4,483,954
3,130,566
14,323
1.43
Sugar
Sugarcane raw
1,711,087,173
23,877,378
716,614
71.66
Spices
Nutmeg mace cardamom
59,198
260,964
2,268
0.23
Pepper sp.
426,925
557,057
7,664
0.77
Vanilla
6,680
72,512
921
0.09
Cloves
135,887
533,085
2,549
0.25
Cinnamon
202,299
209,470
9,658
0.97
Spices nested
1,985,226
936,257
21,204
2.12
Fruit
Banana
102,028,171
5,014,058
203,484
20.35
Plantains
36,387,578
5,407,363
67,293
6.73
Mangoes, mangosteens,
guavas
37,124,742
4,946,313
75,055
7.51
Pineapples
19,408,581
879,175
220,759
22.08
Citrus Fruits, nested
11,776,311
1,264,642
93,120
9.31
Papaya
11,568,346
433,057
267,132
26.71
Avocadoes
3,891,626
462,662
84,114
8.41
Tropical fresh fruit nested
18,484,427
2,492,813
74,151
7.42
Nuts
Almonds with shell
2,556,816
1,684,746
15,176
1.52
Brazil Nuts with shell
99,917
640
1,561,203
156.12
Cashew nuts with shell
2,757,598
4,715,046
5,849
0.58
Walnuts with shell
2,555,090
844,162
30,268
3.03
Nuts nested
807,005
574,381
14,050
1.41
Oil, fibre and rubber
Coconut (fresh, copra and
dried)
59,421,273
11,376,698
52,231
5.22
Oil palm fruit
217,925,795
15,410,262
141,416
14.14
palm oil
43,573,470
na
na
na
Cotton lint
23,295,107
na
na
na
Fibre crops nested
312,840
361,608
8,651
0.87
Natural rubber (dry weight
of latex)
10,004,206
9,624,577
10,394
1.04
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Calculated by conversion from Hg/ha
