Nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, raw β 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
Nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, raw β Area harvested is currently reported for 20 countries. The highest value is 284,026 ha in Indonesia; the lowest is 1 ha in Dominica.
The median across all reporting countries is 381.5 ha, and the mean is 28,061 ha.
Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Guatemala (up 96.5%), and the largest decrease in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (down 82.2%).
Nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, raw β Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 284,026 ha | 2024 | up 80.0% | volatile |
| 2 | Guatemala | 142,255 ha | 2024 | up 96.5% | volatile |
| 3 | India | 108,805 ha | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 4 | Nepal | 16,382 ha | 2024 | up 42.4% | rising |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 3,031 ha | 2024 | up 80.7% | falling |
| 6 | Bhutan | 2,547 ha | 2024 | down 27.5% | falling |
| 7 | Honduras | 1,252 ha | 2024 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 8 | Grenada | 903 ha | 2024 | down 28.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Trinidad and Tobago | 598 ha | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 10 | Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of | 410 ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 11 | Ethiopia PDR | 353 ha | 1992 | up 0.9% | falling |
| 12 | Papua New Guinea | 223 ha | 2024 | down 7.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Malawi | 144 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 14 | St. Lucia | 94 ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 15 | Kenya | 89 ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 16 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 51 ha | 2024 | down 82.2% | falling |
| 17 | Togo | 33 ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Madagascar, Republic of | 15 ha | 2024 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 19 | Malaysia | 11 ha | 2024 | down 21.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Dominica | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 580,575 ha
- Asia 432,742 ha
- South-eastern Asia 301,977 ha
- Americas 145,155 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 45,255 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 37,423 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 18,837 ha
- Caribbean 1,648 ha
- Oceania 223 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.