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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 153,276 ha
- Asia 97,772 ha
- Southern Asia 87,124 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 24,272 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 27,739 ha
- Middle Africa 11,645 ha
- Africa 25,947 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 22,511 ha
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 1,684 ha
- Americas 17,273 ha
- South America 13,812 ha
- Eastern Europe 12,284 ha
- Europe 12,284 ha
- Eastern Africa 9,492 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 6,984 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 5,262 ha
- Eastern Asia 3,664 ha
- Western Africa 3,615 ha
- Central America 1,777 ha
- Caribbean 1,684 ha
- Southern Africa 1,194 ha
- Southern Europe 0 ha
- European Union (27) 0 ha
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.