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Table 5.1. Basic statistics on rice production in selected countries in Latin América
and the Caribbean.
Current situation average
2010
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2012
Rate of growth 2000
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2012
Planted
area (ha)
(%)
Yield
(t ha 1 )
(%)
Production
(t)
Planted area
(ha)
Yield
(t ha 1 )
Production
(t) (%)
Region
All LAC
countries
27,247,901
5,673,901
4.08
1.15
0.88
2.05
Mercosur
14,489,887
3,031,125
4.78
0.70
2.14
2.90
Brazil
12,034,794
2,615,206
4.61
0.75
2.49
3.32
Argentina
1,519,768
236,162
6.41
2.39
0.98
1.39
Uruguay
935,325
179,757
7.78
1.40
0.18
1.59
N. South
America
8,196,857
1,655,251
4.95
1.68
1.30
0.38
Peru
2,824,906
379,730
7.44
3.10
1.96
1.12
Colombia
2,000,863
487,621
4.10
1.17
0.52
2.26
Ecuador
1,583,223
364,755
4.34
1.89
0.32
1.57
Bolivia
453,654
178,283
2.54
3.62
0.84
2.75
Central and
Caribbean
1,837,170
453,361
4.77
2.69
1.77
0.90
Costa Rica
253,675
74,924
3.39
0.15
1.41
1.24
Panama
264,627
106,035
2.50
1.67
0.89
0.77
Nicaragua
460,663
92,105
5.00
5.43
1.43
3.85
Dominican
Republic
858,204
180,297
4.76
2.70
2.71
0.01
Source: Calculations based on statistical data from FAO ( http://faostat.fao.org/ ).
cient in recent years,
thus increasing production while reducing the crop area. In the period
2000
Rice production in LAC has become more ef
2012, the area under cultivation in LAC had an annual negative
growth of 0.88%, dropping to 5.7 million hectares. In the same period,
total production increased at 1.15% annually, achieving 27 million
tonnes. This increase in production was due to increase in yield at
the farm level, which grew at 2.05%, reaching 4.08 t ha 1 (Table 5.1).
Most of these gains happened in MERCOSUR countries (Brazil, Uru-
guay, and Argentina), where the area declined at 2.14%, achieving
3.03million hectares; production grew at 0.7%, reaching 14.5million
tonnes (rough rice); and yields increased to 4.78 t ha 1 , with an annual
growth of 2.9% (Table 5.1). There is a lot of variation in the Caribbean,
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