Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — 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
84
Highest
370,000 ha
Ethiopia PDR
Lowest
0 ha
China, Taiwan Province of
Median
1,211 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,943

What the numbers show

Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Area harvested is currently reported for 84 countries. The highest value is 370,000 ha in Ethiopia PDR; the lowest is 0 ha in China, Taiwan Province of.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,211 ha, and the mean is 13,226 ha.

Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 39 fell. The largest increase was in Nicaragua (up 605.8%), and the largest decrease in Estonia (down 100.0%).

Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ethiopia PDR 370,000 ha 1992 up 32.1% rising
2 Indonesia 63,444 ha 2024 down 9.9% volatile
3 Namibia 43,947 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
4 Lao People's Democratic Republic 140,130 ha 2024 up 72.3% rising
4 Peru 39,770 ha 2024 down 7.2% rising
5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 126,371 ha 2024 up 7.7% volatile
5 Nepal 29,539 ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
6 Papua New Guinea 25,122 ha 2024 up 6.1% rising
7 Melanesia 26,472 ha 2024 down 16.0% rising
7 Haiti 24,456 ha 2024 down 4.8% rising
8 Thailand 17,040 ha 2024 up 4.7% volatile
8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 16,541 ha 2024 down 6.1% rising
9 Eritrea 15,193 ha 2024 down 17.4% falling
9 Timor-Leste 8,269 ha 2024 down 16.1% rising
10 Guinea-Bissau 13,406 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
10 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,520 ha 2024 down 21.8% rising
11 Pakistan 12,214 ha 2024 down 4.9% volatile
11 United Republic of Tanzania 993 ha 2024 up 22.6% volatile
12 Ecuador 10,626 ha 2024 up 8.8% volatile
12 Polynesia 739 ha 2024 down 1.3% falling
13 France 9,899 ha 2017 up 63.4% rising
13 Micronesia 640 ha 1990 down 13.5% rising
14 Eswatini 9,149 ha 2024 up 8.9% rising
15 Colombia 8,987 ha 2024 down 41.6% rising
16 Congo 8,381 ha 2024 up 4.9% rising
17 Botswana 8,098 ha 2024 down 4.8% rising
18 Vanuatu 6,686 ha 2021 up 7.8% volatile
19 Equatorial Guinea 6,419 ha 2024 up 7.4% rising
19 Côte d'Ivoire 2,493 ha 2024 down 14.5% rising
20 Mexico 6,277 ha 2024 down 14.0% rising
21 Philippines 5,799 ha 2024 up 11.1% falling
22 Cameroon 5,113 ha 2024 up 3.7% falling
23 Japan 3,727 ha 2024 down 4.7% falling
24 Sri Lanka 3,700 ha 2024 down 34.8% falling
25 China 3,528 ha 2024 up 4.8% volatile
25 China, mainland 3,528 ha 2024 up 4.8% volatile
27 Cambodia 3,351 ha 2024 up 5.3% volatile
28 Kenya 2,378 ha 2024 down 1.4% rising
29 Bhutan 2,276 ha 2024 down 1.7% rising
30 Guyana 2,275 ha 2024 down 10.9% falling
31 Nicaragua 1,835 ha 2023 up 605.8% volatile
32 Jamaica 1,788 ha 2024 up 27.1% falling
33 Mozambique 1,388 ha 2024 up 9.3% rising
34 Fiji 1,350 ha 2024 down 10.0% volatile
35 Maldives 1,300 ha 1990 up 8.3% rising
36 Egypt 1,122 ha 2024 up 8.0% rising
37 Togo 1,111 ha 2024 up 1.0% volatile
38 Costa Rica 1,048 ha 2024 down 21.8% volatile
39 Iraq 962 ha 2024 up 204.4% rising
40 Slovenia 900 ha 2017 up 3.4% volatile
41 Honduras 854 ha 2024 up 6.0% rising
42 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 670 ha 2024 down 6.0% volatile
43 Kiribati 640 ha 1990 down 13.5% rising
44 Spain 516 ha 2017 up 3.2% falling
45 Sao Tome and Principe 474 ha 2024 up 21.2% volatile
46 Brunei Darussalam 464 ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
47 Grenada 427 ha 2015 up 16.3% rising
47 Saint Lucia 427 ha 2024 up 1.9% falling
49 Malaysia 403 ha 2024 up 13.8% volatile
50 Samoa 399 ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
51 Dominica 382 ha 2024 up 1.6% volatile
52 Guadeloupe 373 ha 2006 up 24.3% volatile
53 Tonga 283 ha 2024 up 4.4% volatile
54 Serbia 279 ha 2024 up 81.2% rising
55 Martinique 230 ha 2006 down 74.3% volatile
56 Saint Kitts and Nevis 191 ha 2024 down 4.0% falling
57 Trinidad and Tobago 178 ha 2010 down 2.7% rising
58 Suriname 153 ha 2024 down 3.2% volatile
59 Zimbabwe 119 ha 2024 down 0.8% falling
60 Hungary 62 ha 1992 down 69.0% falling
61 Palestine, State of 35 ha 2022 down 12.5% volatile
62 Ghana 34 ha 2024 up 6.2% rising
62 Puerto Rico 34 ha 2024 down 70.9% volatile
64 Morocco 22 ha 2024 up 10.0% rising
64 French Polynesia 22 ha 2024 up 4.8% volatile
66 Belize 21 ha 2024 up 5.0% volatile
66 Tuvalu 21 ha 2024 unchanged rising
68 Singapore 1 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
68 Cook Islands 1 ha 2020 down 97.2% volatile
70 Bulgaria 0 ha 1992 volatile
70 Cyprus 0 ha 2017 volatile
70 Estonia 0 ha 2017 down 100.0% volatile
70 Panama 0 ha 2021 down 100.0% volatile
70 China, Taiwan Province of 0 ha 1991 down 100.0% rising

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
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
112 places, 5,943 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.