Plantains and cooking bananas — 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...

Countries reporting
50
Highest
2.69 million ha
Uganda
Lowest
26 ha
Bahamas
Median
8,289 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,296

What the numbers show

Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 2.69 million ha in Uganda; the lowest is 26 ha in Bahamas.

The median across all reporting countries is 8,289 ha, and the mean is 107,935 ha.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Barbados (up 933.3%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 80.8%).

Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uganda 2.69 million ha 2024 up 176.8% rising
2 Cameroon 539,375 ha 2024 up 78.8% rising
3 Ghana 397,332 ha 2024 up 11.3% rising
4 Colombia 281,914 ha 2024 down 29.5% rising
5 Philippines 263,973 ha 2024 up 1.1% flat
6 Nigeria 162,000 ha 1990 down 10.0% falling
7 Peru 156,483 ha 2009 up 30.4% rising
8 Ecuador 134,450 ha 2024 up 28.6% rising
9 Guinea 114,996 ha 2024 up 25.1% rising
10 Myanmar 105,786 ha 2024 up 39.8% rising
11 Dominican Republic 103,454 ha 2024 up 123.7% falling
12 Cuba 69,733 ha 2024 up 23.9% volatile
13 Gabon 50,998 ha 2024 down 3.8% rising
14 Central African Republic 43,257 ha 2024 up 45.3% rising
15 Sri Lanka 40,542 ha 2024 down 27.9% rising
16 Haiti 38,121 ha 2024 up 4.8% flat
17 Malawi 36,821 ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
18 Liberia 22,840 ha 2024 up 6.1% rising
19 Guinea-Bissau 17,983 ha 2024 up 7.9% rising
20 Nicaragua 16,229 ha 2023 up 109.2% rising
21 Panama 14,350 ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
22 Bangladesh 11,719 ha 2024 up 13.5% rising
23 Congo 11,563 ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
24 Guatemala 10,507 ha 2024 down 22.9% rising
25 Sierra Leone 8,509 ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
26 Equatorial Guinea 8,069 ha 2024 up 4.8% rising
27 Honduras 7,919 ha 2024 down 4.0% rising
28 Costa Rica 7,158 ha 2024 down 28.4% rising
29 Puerto Rico 4,740 ha 2024 up 50.7% falling
30 Sao Tome and Principe 4,110 ha 2024 up 5.4% flat
31 Guyana 3,777 ha 2024 up 148.3% volatile
32 Jamaica 2,979 ha 2024 up 41.0% rising
33 Kenya 2,813 ha 2024 up 5.9% rising
34 El Salvador 1,977 ha 2024 down 13.6% volatile
35 Trinidad and Tobago 1,548 ha 2024 up 6.3% rising
36 Guadeloupe 766 ha 2006 up 41.9% volatile
37 Martinique 763 ha 2006 up 27.2% volatile
38 Dominica 730 ha 2024 up 6.1% volatile
39 French Guiana 451 ha 2006 down 2.0% volatile
40 Fiji 418 ha 2024 up 64.6% rising
41 Belize 412 ha 2024 up 76.8% volatile
42 Suriname 364 ha 2024 down 53.4% rising
43 Tonga 234 ha 2024 down 3.3% falling
44 New Caledonia 140 ha 2024 up 133.3% volatile
45 Saint Lucia 139 ha 2024 up 87.8% volatile
46 Grenada 77 ha 2024 down 80.8% volatile
47 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 67 ha 2024 down 32.3% volatile
48 Barbados 62 ha 2024 up 933.3% volatile
49 French Polynesia 58 ha 2024 down 57.4% volatile
50 Bahamas 26 ha 2024 up 4.0% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 4,296 data points, 1961–2024
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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.