Buckwheat — Area harvested by country
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...
What the numbers show
Buckwheat — Area harvested is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 2.38 million ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Austria.
The median across all reporting countries is 4,462 ha, and the mean is 150,061 ha.
Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Canada (up 3,624.0%), and the largest decrease in Czechoslovakia (down 100.0%).
Buckwheat — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 2.38 million ha | 1991 | up 32.4% | flat |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 872,673 ha | 2024 | up 22.6% | falling |
| 3 | China | 624,068 ha | 2024 | down 10.6% | falling |
| 3 | China, mainland | 624,068 ha | 2024 | down 10.6% | falling |
| 3 | United Republic of Tanzania | 21,322 ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | volatile |
| 4 | Republic of Moldova | 1 ha | 2024 | down 99.1% | volatile |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 94,286 ha | 2024 | up 46.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Ukraine | 90,300 ha | 2024 | down 33.9% | volatile |
| 7 | Poland | 78,027 ha | 2017 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 8 | France | 74,883 ha | 2017 | up 127.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Japan | 69,000 ha | 2024 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 10 | Brazil | 47,927 ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 11 | Belarus | 35,000 ha | 2024 | up 89.1% | rising |
| 12 | Lithuania | 27,610 ha | 2019 | up 26.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Latvia | 18,300 ha | 2017 | up 71.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Canada | 14,300 ha | 2024 | up 3,624.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Nepal | 11,253 ha | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 16 | Estonia | 5,278 ha | 2017 | up 1,630.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Slovenia | 3,647 ha | 2017 | up 350.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Republic of Korea | 1,796 ha | 2024 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 19 | Bhutan | 989 ha | 2024 | down 53.6% | falling |
| 20 | Hungary | 969 ha | 2017 | up 47.9% | volatile |
| 21 | Yugoslav SFR | 916 ha | 1991 | down 8.4% | volatile |
| 22 | Czechia | 887 ha | 2017 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 23 | Croatia | 695 ha | 2017 | up 363.3% | volatile |
| 24 | South Africa | 556 ha | 2024 | down 6.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Slovakia | 429 ha | 2017 | up 99.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 359 ha | 2024 | down 49.1% | flat |
| 27 | Uzbekistan | 175 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 28 | Georgia | 106 ha | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 29 | Kyrgyzstan | 9 ha | 2024 | down 60.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Czechoslovakia | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Tajikistan | 0 ha | 2004 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Austria | 0 ha | 2017 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.97 million ha
- Asia 801,683 ha
- Europe 998,333 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 32,575 ha
- Eastern Europe 997,974 ha
- Eastern Asia 694,865 ha
- Americas 143,915 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 106,713 ha
- Northern America 95,989 ha
- Central Asia 94,470 ha
- United States of America 81,689 ha
- Western Europe 74,883 ha
- South America 47,927 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 33,564 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 32,759 ha
- Northern Europe 27,610 ha
- European Union (27) 27,610 ha
- Africa 21,878 ha
- Eastern Africa 21,322 ha
- Southern Asia 12,242 ha
- Southern Africa 556 ha
- Southern Europe 359 ha
- Western Asia 106 ha
About this data
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.