Kenaf, and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted — 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
27
Highest
86,611 ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
Spain
Median
1,344 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,937

What the numbers show

Kenaf, and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted — Area harvested is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 86,611 ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in Spain.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,344 ha, and the mean is 5,833 ha.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Ethiopia PDR (up 2,561.9%), and the largest decrease in USSR (down 100.0%).

Kenaf, and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 86,611 ha 2024 down 1.9% volatile
2 Russian Federation 12,284 ha 2024 down 6.9% falling
3 Chile 10,595 ha 2024 down 6.7% volatile
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 9,864 ha 2024 up 6.1% rising
4 Mozambique 6,973 ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
5 Indonesia 3,908 ha 2024 up 60.2% volatile
6 China, mainland 3,664 ha 2024 down 15.3% volatile
6 China 3,664 ha 2024 down 15.3% volatile
8 Brazil 3,217 ha 2024 down 45.1% volatile
9 Mali 2,603 ha 2024 down 2.4% rising
10 Ethiopia 2,107 ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
11 Cuba 1,684 ha 2024 down 6.4% volatile
12 Thailand 1,512 ha 2024 down 14.1% volatile
13 El Salvador 1,344 ha 2024 down 7.1% volatile
14 Angola 1,229 ha 2024 up 4.6% falling
15 South Africa 1,194 ha 2024 up 3.6% falling
16 Malaysia 1,105 ha 2024 down 53.9% falling
17 Nigeria 1,013 ha 2024 up 1.0% volatile
18 Ethiopia PDR 559 ha 1992 up 2,561.9% volatile
19 Central African Republic 552 ha 2024 up 2.0% volatile
20 Myanmar 459 ha 2024 down 71.6% volatile
21 Pakistan 440 ha 2024 down 13.4% volatile
22 Guatemala 433 ha 2024 up 8.2% falling
23 Madagascar 412 ha 2024 down 8.0% volatile
24 Bangladesh 73 ha 2024 up 204.2% volatile
25 USSR 0 ha 1991 down 100.0% falling
25 Spain 0 ha 1989 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
Kenaf, and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
50 places, 2,937 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.