Other fibre crops, raw, n.e.c. — 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
Other fibre crops, raw, n.e.c. — Area harvested is currently reported for 29 countries. The highest value is 334,356 ha in Ethiopia; the lowest is 0 ha in Republic of Korea.
The median across all reporting countries is 925 ha, and the mean is 26,267 ha.
Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Sri Lanka (up 58.3%), and the largest decrease in Australia (down 66.6%).
Other fibre crops, raw, n.e.c. — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethiopia | 334,356 ha | 2024 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 2 | Ethiopia PDR | 224,000 ha | 1992 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 107,642 ha | 2024 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 13,458 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 4 | Canada | 20,809 ha | 2024 | down 10.7% | volatile |
| 4 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,611 ha | 2024 | down 10.5% | falling |
| 5 | Brazil | 20,501 ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 6 | Madagascar | 11,346 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | flat |
| 6 | Polynesia | 77 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 7 | Australia and New Zealand | 7,804 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 7 | New Zealand | 7,804 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | falling |
| 9 | South Africa | 3,150 ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 10 | Sierra Leone | 2,039 ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 1,895 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 12 | Argentina | 1,604 ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | falling |
| 13 | Thailand | 925 ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | volatile |
| 14 | Cambodia | 798 ha | 2024 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 15 | Philippines | 532 ha | 2024 | down 13.1% | volatile |
| 15 | Caribbean | 85 ha | 2024 | up 41.7% | volatile |
| 16 | Australia | 405 ha | 1971 | down 66.6% | falling |
| 17 | Chile | 387 ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 18 | Mauritius | 145 ha | 2024 | up 10.7% | volatile |
| 19 | Myanmar | 103 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 20 | Jamaica | 85 ha | 2024 | up 41.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Samoa | 77 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 22 | Réunion | 43 ha | 2006 | unchanged | rising |
| 23 | China | 35 ha | 2024 | down 2.8% | volatile |
| 23 | China, Taiwan Province of | 35 ha | 2024 | down 2.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Republic of Korea | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 529,302 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 352,148 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 460,097 ha
- Asia 125,387 ha
- Africa 352,647 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 349,353 ha
- Eastern Africa 347,459 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 308 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 334,356 ha
- Southern Asia 109,536 ha
- Americas 43,386 ha
- South America 22,492 ha
- Northern America 20,809 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 15,816 ha
- Oceania 7,881 ha
- Southern Africa 3,150 ha
- Western Africa 2,039 ha
- Eastern Asia 35 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.