Cereals, primary — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Cereals, primary — Yield was 3,660 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cereals, primary — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 3,660 kg/ha for cereals, primary — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 1.5% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals, primary — yield in Melanesia peaked at 3,922 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 1,523 kg/ha, in 1998.
Melanesia ranks 80th of 193 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,752 kg/ha | 1,680 kg/ha | 1,951 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,977 kg/ha | 1,862 kg/ha | 2,164 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,126 kg/ha | 1,747 kg/ha | 2,302 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,295 kg/ha | 1,523 kg/ha | 2,893 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,784 kg/ha | 2,648 kg/ha | 2,974 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,419 kg/ha | 3,018 kg/ha | 3,824 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,799 kg/ha | 3,660 kg/ha | 3,922 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals, primary — yield in Melanesia?
- Cereals, primary — yield in Melanesia was 3,660 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals, primary — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,922 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest cereals, primary — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,523 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does Melanesia rank for cereals, primary — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 80th out of 193 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cereals, primary — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals, primary — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.