Cow peas, dry — 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
51
Highest
5.58 million ha
Niger
Lowest
0 ha
Japan
Median
13,038 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,623

What the numbers show

Cow peas, dry — Area harvested is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 5.58 million ha in Niger; the lowest is 0 ha in Japan.

The median across all reporting countries is 13,038 ha, and the mean is 313,698 ha.

Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Croatia (up 838.0%), and the largest decrease in Japan (down 100.0%).

Cow peas, dry — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Niger 5.58 million ha 2024 up 4.7% volatile
2 Nigeria 5.14 million ha 2024 up 38.9% rising
3 Burkina Faso 1.52 million ha 2024 up 32.2% volatile
3 United Republic of Tanzania 218,150 ha 2024 up 10.6% volatile
4 Cameroon 555,235 ha 2024 up 107.3% volatile
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 198,693 ha 2024 up 29.2% rising
5 Mali 485,921 ha 2024 up 37.5% volatile
6 Mozambique 351,267 ha 2024 down 7.0% rising
7 Senegal 300,395 ha 2024 up 144.0% volatile
7 Syrian Arab Republic 81 ha 2024 down 68.0% falling
8 Kenya 234,351 ha 2024 down 16.9% rising
9 Sudan 231,525 ha 2024 down 11.2% rising
10 Benin 220,485 ha 2024 up 89.2% rising
11 Ghana 191,625 ha 2024 up 15.6% rising
11 Caribbean 41,236 ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
12 Sudan (former) 145,740 ha 2011 up 757.3% volatile
13 Myanmar 128,014 ha 2024 down 4.1% volatile
14 Malawi 124,813 ha 2024 up 59.1% rising
15 Zimbabwe 65,888 ha 2024 up 22.2% volatile
16 Haiti 40,818 ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
17 Madagascar 33,935 ha 2024 up 197.7% volatile
18 Yemen 33,662 ha 2024 up 49.8% rising
19 Uganda 25,929 ha 2024 up 2.2% falling
20 Mauritania 22,493 ha 2024 up 0.0% flat
21 China 14,604 ha 2024 up 12.3% rising
21 China, mainland 14,604 ha 2024 up 12.3% rising
23 Peru 13,038 ha 2024 up 2.0% falling
24 Sri Lanka 11,074 ha 2024 down 3.9% volatile
25 South Africa 10,390 ha 2024 down 7.1% falling
26 Australia and New Zealand 6,304 ha 1993 — volatile
26 Australia 6,304 ha 1993 — volatile
28 Serbia and Montenegro 4,655 ha 2005 down 41.5% volatile
29 Serbia 4,645 ha 2024 down 2.3% falling
30 Guinea-Bissau 4,309 ha 2024 up 5.7% rising
31 Yugoslav SFR 4,000 ha 1991 up 29.6% volatile
32 Gambia 3,608 ha 2024 up 12.8% falling
33 Zambia 3,584 ha 2024 down 50.5% volatile
34 North Macedonia 2,088 ha 2024 up 2.6% rising
35 Eswatini 1,950 ha 2024 down 1.6% flat
36 Egypt 1,922 ha 2024 down 6.2% falling
37 Croatia 938 ha 2017 up 838.0% volatile
38 Jamaica 250 ha 2024 down 7.4% volatile
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 200 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
40 Philippines 173 ha 2024 down 46.8% volatile
41 Trinidad and Tobago 168 ha 2024 up 10.5% rising
42 Cyprus 142 ha 2017 up 91.9% volatile
43 Guyana 89 ha 2024 down 6.3% falling
44 Iraq 55 ha 2024 down 73.8% volatile
45 Palestine 19 ha 2022 down 42.4% volatile
46 Hungary 5 ha 2017 down 44.4% volatile
47 Japan 0 ha 1998 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

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Indicator
Cow peas, dry — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 3,623 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.