Mustard seed — Yield in Nepal
Nepal: Mustard seed — Yield was 1,113 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Mustard seed — Yield in Nepal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, mustard seed — yield in Nepal stood at 1,113 kg/ha.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 26.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, mustard seed — yield in Nepal peaked at 1,144 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 472.9 kg/ha, in 1965.
Nepal ranks 7th of 31 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Mustard seed — Yield in Nepal, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 591.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 589 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1963 | 589 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 657.8 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1965 | 472.9 kg/ha | -28.1% |
| 1966 | 531.3 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1967 | 571.4 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1968 | 536.1 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1969 | 534.7 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1970 | 553.4 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1971 | 520.4 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1972 | 515.9 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1973 | 530.7 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 558.5 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1975 | 587.9 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1976 | 606.1 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1977 | 569.7 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1978 | 589.6 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1979 | 642.5 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1980 | 523.7 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 1981 | 630.8 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1982 | 694.6 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1983 | 630.7 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1984 | 662.6 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1985 | 657.4 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1986 | 568.4 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1987 | 577.4 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1988 | 622.9 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1989 | 640.5 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1990 | 638.2 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1991 | 589.5 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1992 | 568.3 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1993 | 567 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 605.9 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1995 | 630.5 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1996 | 627 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1997 | 654.8 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1998 | 615 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1999 | 628.7 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2000 | 647.3 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2001 | 702.2 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2002 | 718.5 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 669.1 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2004 | 711.5 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2005 | 756 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2006 | 740.8 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2007 | 736.4 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2008 | 744.7 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 747.1 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 781 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2011 | 824.4 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2012 | 844.3 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 846.2 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 878.8 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2015 | 874.3 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2016 | 1,010 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 2017 | 995.7 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2018 | 1,056 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2019 | 1,041 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2020 | 1,091 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2021 | 1,111 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2022 | 1,144 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2023 | 1,110 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2024 | 1,113 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Mustard seed — Yield in Nepal changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | -28.1% | 657.8 kg/ha | 472.9 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 563.77 kg/ha | 472.9 kg/ha | 657.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 567.47 kg/ha | 515.9 kg/ha | 642.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 620.9 kg/ha | 523.7 kg/ha | 694.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 612.49 kg/ha | 567 kg/ha | 654.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 717.36 kg/ha | 647.3 kg/ha | 756 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 915.14 kg/ha | 781 kg/ha | 1,056 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,114 kg/ha | 1,091 kg/ha | 1,144 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is mustard seed — yield in Nepal?
- Mustard seed — yield in Nepal was 1,113 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest mustard seed — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 1,144 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest mustard seed — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 472.9 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Nepal rank for mustard seed — yield?
- Nepal ranks 7th out of 31 countries with data for 2024.
- Is mustard seed — yield rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 26.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nepal data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Mustard seed — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.