Buckwheat — Production 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
1.22 million t
USSR
Lowest
0 t
Austria
Median
3,385 t
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,535

What the numbers show

Buckwheat — Production is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 1.22 million t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in Austria.

The median across all reporting countries is 3,385 t, and the mean is 122,347 t.

Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Canada (up 4,014.0%), and the largest decrease in Czechoslovakia (down 100.0%).

Buckwheat — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 1.22 million t 1991 up 155.7% rising
2 Russian Federation 979,962 t 2024 up 48.1% rising
3 China 504,358 t 2024 down 10.7% volatile
3 China, mainland 504,358 t 2024 down 10.7% volatile
5 France 263,485 t 2017 up 124.9% volatile
6 Ukraine 113,650 t 2024 down 32.1% falling
7 Poland 113,113 t 2017 up 34.3% rising
8 Kazakhstan 89,282 t 2024 up 91.9% volatile
9 Brazil 64,996 t 2024 up 1.6% rising
10 Japan 40,400 t 2024 up 29.9% rising
11 Belarus 33,988 t 2024 up 84.9% volatile
12 Lithuania 27,610 t 2019 up 87.8% volatile
13 United Republic of Tanzania 22,208 t 2024 up 11.0% volatile
14 Latvia 17,100 t 2017 up 54.1% volatile
15 Canada 16,497 t 2024 up 4,014.0% volatile
16 Nepal 14,516 t 2024 up 40.5% rising
17 Estonia 3,385 t 2017 up 904.5% volatile
18 Slovenia 2,909 t 2017 up 282.3% volatile
19 Czechia 2,262 t 2017 up 11.4% flat
20 Republic of Korea 1,658 t 2024 down 14.3% volatile
21 Bhutan 1,019 t 2024 down 76.3% falling
22 Hungary 909 t 2017 up 92.6% falling
23 Yugoslav SFR 864 t 1991 down 13.6% volatile
24 Bosnia and Herzegovina 668 t 2024 down 27.9% rising
25 Croatia 624 t 2017 up 78.3% volatile
26 Slovakia 367 t 2017 up 144.7% volatile
27 Uzbekistan 140 t 2024 volatile
28 Georgia 114.15 t 2024 up 7.6% rising
29 Kyrgyzstan 13 t 2024 down 40.9% volatile
30 Republic of Moldova 0.2 t 2024 down 99.9% volatile
31 Czechoslovakia 0 t 1992 down 100.0% volatile
31 Tajikistan 0 t 2004 down 100.0% volatile
31 Austria 0 t 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 — Production
Unit
t
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.