Brazil vs France: Buckwheat — Area harvested

Brazil
47,927 ha
in 2024
France
74,883 ha
in 2017
Brazil rank
10th
France rank
8th

Buckwheat — Area harvested over time

  • Brazil
  • France
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k196119922024

How they compare

France currently reports 74,883 ha against 47,927 ha in Brazil, a difference of 26,956 ha.

That makes France's figure about 1.6 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was France ahead.

Brazil ranks 10th and France ranks 8th of 32 countries.

Across the 6 decades both report, Brazil averaged higher in 5 and France in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil France Difference Ahead
1960s 6,856 ha 31,589 ha 24,733 ha France
1970s 24,050 ha 10,174 ha 13,876 ha Brazil
1980s 37,900 ha 6,139 ha 31,761 ha Brazil
1990s 45,691 ha 9,269 ha 36,422 ha Brazil
2000s 46,241 ha 31,544 ha 14,698 ha Brazil
2010s 47,219 ha 42,244 ha 4,975 ha Brazil

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher buckwheat — area harvested, Brazil or France?
France, at 74,883 ha against 47,927 ha in Brazil as of 2017.
What is the difference in buckwheat — area harvested between Brazil and France?
26,956 ha, with France ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and France?
57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
How do Brazil and France rank globally for buckwheat — area harvested?
Brazil ranks 10th and France ranks 8th of 32 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Buckwheat — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Brazil vs France: Buckwheat — Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 19 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/buckwheat-area-harvested/brazil/france/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/buckwheat-area-harvested/brazil/france/">Brazil vs France: Buckwheat — Area harvested</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Buckwheat — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
57 places, 2,535 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.