Mustard seed — 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
Mustard seed — Area harvested is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 242,700 ha in Canada; the lowest is 0 ha in Sweden.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,900 ha, and the mean is 33,325 ha.
Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in France (up 266.1%), and the largest decrease in Türkiye (down 100.0%).
Mustard seed — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 242,700 ha | 2024 | up 24.2% | rising |
| 2 | USSR | 228,000 ha | 1991 | down 12.6% | flat |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 223,195 ha | 2024 | up 42.8% | rising |
| 4 | Nepal | 189,012 ha | 2024 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 5 | Ukraine | 38,200 ha | 2024 | down 60.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Myanmar | 37,520 ha | 2024 | down 36.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 29,599 ha | 2024 | down 24.4% | volatile |
| 8 | China, mainland | 23,750 ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 8 | China | 23,750 ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 10 | Malaysia | 12,248 ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 11 | Czechia | 11,825 ha | 2017 | down 44.6% | volatile |
| 12 | France | 6,590 ha | 2017 | up 266.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Germany | 6,080 ha | 2017 | up 46.1% | rising |
| 14 | Ethiopia | 4,439 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 4,403 ha | 2017 | up 46.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Hungary | 4,268 ha | 2017 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 17 | Czechoslovakia | 3,900 ha | 1992 | down 28.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Serbia | 3,099 ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 19 | Slovakia | 2,301 ha | 2017 | up 38.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Romania | 2,020 ha | 2017 | down 53.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Lithuania | 1,155 ha | 2017 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 22 | Afghanistan | 1,092 ha | 2024 | up 89.3% | rising |
| 23 | Bhutan | 331 ha | 2024 | down 70.6% | volatile |
| 24 | Sri Lanka | 185 ha | 2024 | down 51.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Denmark | 29 ha | 2017 | up 11.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Kyrgyzstan | 25 ha | 2024 | down 32.4% | volatile |
| 27 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 5 ha | 2024 | up 150.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Türkiye | 0 ha | 1996 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Italy | 0 ha | 1994 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Australia and New Zealand | 0 ha | 2005 | — | volatile |
| 28 | Mexico | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Australia | 0 ha | 2005 | — | volatile |
| 28 | Sweden | 0 ha | 1988 | 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.
- World 876,991 ha
- Americas 314,290 ha
- Northern America 314,290 ha
- Asia 293,768 ha
- Europe 264,493 ha
- Eastern Europe 261,395 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 232,580 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 232,063 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 224,500 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 194,569 ha
- Southern Asia 190,625 ha
- United States of America 71,590 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.