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...
What the numbers show
Buckwheat — Production is currently reported for 34 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 3,147 t, and the mean is 118,755 t.
Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 12 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 3 | United Republic of Tanzania | 22,208 t | 2024 | up 11.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Republic of Moldova | 0.2 t | 2024 | down 99.9% | 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 | Latvia | 17,100 t | 2017 | up 54.1% | volatile |
| 14 | Canada | 16,497 t | 2024 | up 4,014.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Nepal | 14,516 t | 2024 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 16 | Estonia | 3,385 t | 2017 | up 904.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Slovenia | 2,909 t | 2017 | up 282.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Czechia | 2,262 t | 2017 | up 11.4% | flat |
| 19 | Republic of Korea | 1,658 t | 2024 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Bhutan | 1,019 t | 2024 | down 76.3% | falling |
| 21 | Hungary | 909 t | 2017 | up 92.6% | falling |
| 22 | Yugoslav SFR | 864 t | 1991 | down 13.6% | volatile |
| 23 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 668 t | 2024 | down 27.9% | rising |
| 24 | Croatia | 624 t | 2017 | up 78.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Slovakia | 367 t | 2017 | up 144.7% | volatile |
| 26 | South Africa | 223.78 t | 2024 | down 7.0% | 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 | Czechoslovakia | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Tajikistan | 0 t | 2004 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 30 | 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.
- World 1.97 million t
- Asia 651,501 t
- Europe 1.13 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 36,724 t
- Eastern Europe 1.13 million t
- Eastern Asia 546,416 t
- Western Europe 263,485 t
- Americas 168,029 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 104,971 t
- Northern America 103,033 t
- Central Asia 89,436 t
- United States of America 86,536 t
- South America 64,996 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 37,743 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 36,877 t
- Northern Europe 27,610 t
- European Union (27) 27,610 t
- Africa 22,432 t
- Eastern Africa 22,208 t
- Southern Asia 15,535 t
- Southern Europe 668 t
- Southern Africa 223.78 t
- Western Asia 114.15 t
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.