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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 7.23 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 4.51 million ha
- Africa 6.01 million ha
- Middle Africa 1.75 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 5.49 million ha
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.09 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4.96 million ha
- Asia 422,020 ha
- Eastern Africa 3.05 million ha
- United Republic of Tanzania 320,143 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 2.82 million ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 249,779 ha
- Western Africa 1.20 million ha
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 56,130 ha
- Americas 798,037 ha
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 41,631 ha
- Côte d'Ivoire 641,598 ha
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 609 ha
- Micronesia 609 ha
- South America 518,266 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 369,759 ha
- Melanesia 558 ha
- Caribbean 221,674 ha
- Polynesia 292 ha
- Central America 58,098 ha
- Southern Asia 52,261 ha
- Oceania 1,459 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.