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...

Countries reporting
33
Highest
2.38 million ha
USSR
Lowest
0 ha
Austria
Median
5,278 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,535

What the numbers show

Buckwheat — Area harvested is currently reported for 33 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 5,278 ha, and the mean is 154,592 ha.

Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 13 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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
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 United Republic of Tanzania 21,322 ha 2024 up 6.5% volatile
14 Latvia 18,300 ha 2017 up 71.0% volatile
15 Canada 14,300 ha 2024 up 3,624.0% volatile
16 Nepal 11,253 ha 2024 up 7.1% rising
17 Estonia 5,278 ha 2017 up 1,630.5% volatile
18 Slovenia 3,647 ha 2017 up 350.8% volatile
19 Republic of Korea 1,796 ha 2024 down 14.3% volatile
20 Bhutan 989 ha 2024 down 53.6% falling
21 Hungary 969 ha 2017 up 47.9% volatile
22 Yugoslav SFR 916 ha 1991 down 8.4% volatile
23 Czechia 887 ha 2017 down 10.3% falling
24 Croatia 695 ha 2017 up 363.3% 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 Republic of Moldova 1 ha 2024 down 99.1% volatile
31 Czechoslovakia 0 ha 1992 down 100.0% volatile
31 Tajikistan 0 ha 2004 down 100.0% volatile
31 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.

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.