Locust beans (carobs) — 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
Locust beans (carobs) — Area harvested is currently reported for 16 countries. The highest value is 13,240 ha in Portugal; the lowest is 0 ha in Jordan.
The median across all reporting countries is 846 ha, and the mean is 2,543 ha.
Over the past decade 5 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Spain (up 2,268.0%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 100.0%).
Locust beans (carobs) — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portugal | 13,240 ha | 2017 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 2 | Morocco | 10,707 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | falling |
| 3 | Italy | 5,576 ha | 2017 | down 35.7% | falling |
| 4 | Spain | 2,368 ha | 2017 | up 2,268.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Türkiye | 2,248 ha | 2024 | up 256.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Greece | 1,757 ha | 2017 | down 59.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Israel | 1,627 ha | 2024 | up 8.5% | falling |
| 8 | Cyprus | 982 ha | 2017 | down 21.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Algeria | 710 ha | 2024 | down 9.9% | volatile |
| 10 | Croatia | 513 ha | 2017 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 11 | Tunisia | 413 ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 12 | Lebanon | 371 ha | 2024 | up 23.7% | falling |
| 13 | Ukraine | 100 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 14 | Mexico | 76 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 15 | Malta | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 15 | Jordan | 0 ha | 1996 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- European Union (27) 24,436 ha
- Southern Europe 23,454 ha
- World 16,253 ha
- Africa 11,831 ha
- Northern Africa 11,831 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 11,121 ha
- Western Asia 4,246 ha
- Asia 4,246 ha
- Europe 100 ha
- Eastern Europe 100 ha
- Americas 76 ha
- Central America 76 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.