Cantaloupes and other melons — 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
97
Highest
380,808 ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Median
1,925 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,205

What the numbers show

Cantaloupes and other melons — Area harvested is currently reported for 97 countries. The highest value is 380,808 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Netherlands (Kingdom of the).

The median across all reporting countries is 1,925 ha, and the mean is 13,558 ha.

Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 42 fell. The largest increase was in Puerto Rico (up 4,150.0%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 100.0%).

Cantaloupes and other melons — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 380,808 ha 2024 up 11.9% rising
2 China, mainland 377,305 ha 2024 up 12.6% rising
3 India 66,614 ha 2024 up 80.0% volatile
4 Afghanistan 64,800 ha 2024 up 185.2% volatile
5 Kazakhstan 60,429 ha 2024 up 40.3% volatile
6 Brazil 31,287 ha 2024 up 42.2% volatile
7 Italy 26,280 ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
8 Pakistan 19,762 ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
9 Bangladesh 19,447 ha 2024 up 60.2% rising
10 Mexico 18,487 ha 2024 up 1.0% flat
11 Egypt 17,617 ha 2024 down 53.0% rising
12 Spain 16,930 ha 2024 down 28.8% falling
13 Guatemala 15,000 ha 2024 down 39.0% volatile
14 France 14,110 ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
15 Ukraine 11,000 ha 2024 down 43.0% rising
16 Tunisia 10,252 ha 2024 up 8.0% rising
17 Paraguay 8,196 ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
18 Iraq 8,098 ha 2024 down 45.0% falling
19 Indonesia 7,997 ha 2024 down 31.2% volatile
20 Australia and New Zealand 7,968 ha 2024 up 20.1% volatile
21 Australia 7,732 ha 2024 up 21.8% volatile
22 Morocco 7,192 ha 2024 down 68.2% rising
23 Cuba 6,356 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
24 Japan 5,677 ha 2024 down 22.2% falling
25 Colombia 5,369 ha 2024 down 5.6% volatile
26 Honduras 5,218 ha 2024 down 5.8% volatile
27 Argentina 5,204 ha 2024 up 2.2% flat
28 Sudan (former) 5,140 ha 2011 up 347.0% volatile
29 Cameroon 4,952 ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
30 Azerbaijan 4,888 ha 2024 down 41.8% falling
31 Republic of Korea 4,673 ha 2024 down 14.8% falling
32 Bulgaria 4,100 ha 2024 up 48.0% rising
33 Dominican Republic 3,907 ha 2024 up 157.5% volatile
34 Yemen 3,867 ha 2024 up 27.0% volatile
35 China, Taiwan Province of 3,503 ha 2024 down 32.2% falling
36 Niger 3,491 ha 2024 up 344.7% volatile
37 Oman 3,164 ha 2024 up 566.1% volatile
38 Senegal 3,042 ha 2024 down 15.5% falling
39 Chile 2,968 ha 2024 down 6.9% falling
40 Greece 2,900 ha 2024 down 46.1% falling
41 Saudi Arabia 2,567 ha 2024 down 32.9% volatile
42 Romania 2,540 ha 2024 down 39.4% volatile
43 South Sudan 2,472 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
44 Portugal 2,400 ha 2024 down 13.1% falling
45 Mali 2,342 ha 2024 down 64.4% volatile
46 Costa Rica 2,317 ha 2024 down 50.6% volatile
47 Philippines 2,132 ha 2024 up 120.9% volatile
48 Albania 1,977 ha 2024 up 26.0% falling
49 Sri Lanka 1,925 ha 2024 up 73.4% rising
50 Libya 1,753 ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
51 Sudan 1,752 ha 2024 up 9.5% rising
52 Jordan 1,644 ha 2024 up 15.9% volatile
53 South Africa 1,578 ha 2024 down 13.0% rising
54 Ecuador 1,569 ha 2024 down 5.8% volatile
55 Peru 1,534 ha 2024 up 51.1% rising
56 Israel 1,371 ha 2024 down 29.0% falling
57 Czechoslovakia 1,303 ha 1992 up 132.7% volatile
58 Lebanon 982 ha 2024 up 96.4% volatile
59 Panama 617 ha 2024 down 69.2% volatile
60 Guadeloupe 500 ha 2006 up 203.0% volatile
61 Canada 493 ha 2024 down 31.6% volatile
62 Hungary 440 ha 2024 down 25.4% volatile
63 Georgia 300 ha 2024 down 50.8% falling
64 Martinique 280 ha 2006 up 40.0% volatile
65 Guinea 274 ha 2024 down 3.2% rising
66 Haiti 251 ha 2024 up 5.5% rising
67 New Zealand 237 ha 2024 down 17.7% volatile
68 Palestine, State of 216 ha 2022 up 31.7% volatile
69 Jamaica 203 ha 2024 down 21.9% flat
70 Qatar 169 ha 2024 up 89.9% volatile
71 Croatia 160 ha 2024 down 27.3% falling
72 Cyprus 150 ha 2024 up 5.6% volatile
73 El Salvador 115 ha 2024 down 60.3% volatile
74 Uruguay 114 ha 2024 up 17.5% volatile
75 Puerto Rico 85 ha 2024 up 4,150.0% volatile
76 Montenegro 77 ha 2024 up 60.4% rising
77 Namibia 71 ha 2024 up 2.9% rising
78 United Arab Emirates 63 ha 2024 up 90.9% volatile
79 Belize 57 ha 2024 up 338.5% volatile
79 North Macedonia 57 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
81 French Polynesia 41 ha 2024 down 59.4% volatile
82 Barbados 36 ha 2024 up 63.6% volatile
83 Bahrain 34 ha 2024 up 183.3% volatile
84 Solomon Islands 32 ha 2024 down 8.6% rising
85 Zimbabwe 29 ha 2024 unchanged rising
86 Kuwait 24 ha 2024 down 75.5% volatile
87 Slovakia 20 ha 2024 down 53.5% volatile
87 Slovenia 20 ha 2024 up 100.0% rising
87 Réunion 20 ha 2006 down 81.8% falling
90 Grenada 18 ha 2024 down 18.2% volatile
91 Switzerland 12 ha 2024 up 300.0% volatile
92 Djibouti 8 ha 2024 up 14.3% rising
93 Antigua and Barbuda 5 ha 2024 up 25.0% volatile
93 Fiji 5 ha 2024 down 58.3% volatile
95 Denmark 0 ha 2024 volatile
95 Malta 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
95 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Cantaloupes and other melons — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
145 places, 7,205 data points, 1961–2024
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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.