Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Nigeria
Nigeria: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 162,000 ha in 1990. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Nigeria, 1961–1990
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 1990, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Nigeria stood at 162,000 ha.
The figure is down 14.3% on the previous year and down 10.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Nigeria peaked at 200,000 ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 118,000 ha, in 1988.
That places Nigeria 6th out of 50 countries with data for 1990, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 30 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Nigeria, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 200,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 200,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 180,000 ha | -10.0% |
| 1971 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 180,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 181,000 ha | +0.6% |
| 1985 | 185,500 ha | +2.5% |
| 1986 | 187,200 ha | +0.9% |
| 1987 | 143,000 ha | -23.6% |
| 1988 | 118,000 ha | -17.5% |
| 1989 | 189,000 ha | +60.2% |
| 1990 | 162,000 ha | -14.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 200,000 ha | 200,000 ha | 200,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 180,000 ha | 180,000 ha | 180,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 172,370 ha | 118,000 ha | 189,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 162,000 ha | 162,000 ha | 162,000 ha | 1 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Nigeria?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Nigeria was 162,000 ha in 1990, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 200,000 ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 118,000 ha in 1988.
- How does Nigeria rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Nigeria ranks 6th out of 50 countries with data for 1990.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested. 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.