Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested was 1,548 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago is 1,548 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 6.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 1,550 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 360 ha, in 1961.
That places Trinidad and Tobago 35th out of 50 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 360 ha | — |
| 1962 | 380 ha | +5.6% |
| 1963 | 400 ha | +5.3% |
| 1964 | 450 ha | +12.5% |
| 1965 | 520 ha | +15.6% |
| 1966 | 580 ha | +11.5% |
| 1967 | 480 ha | -17.2% |
| 1968 | 500 ha | +4.2% |
| 1969 | 560 ha | +12.0% |
| 1970 | 580 ha | +3.6% |
| 1971 | 540 ha | -6.9% |
| 1972 | 500 ha | -7.4% |
| 1973 | 465 ha | -7.0% |
| 1974 | 405 ha | -12.9% |
| 1975 | 384 ha | -5.2% |
| 1976 | 400 ha | +4.2% |
| 1977 | 470 ha | +17.5% |
| 1978 | 470 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 700 ha | +48.9% |
| 1980 | 1,000 ha | +42.9% |
| 1981 | 950 ha | -5.0% |
| 1982 | 922 ha | -2.9% |
| 1983 | 970 ha | +5.2% |
| 1984 | 970 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 970 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,000 ha | +3.1% |
| 1987 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 1,050 ha | +5.0% |
| 1990 | 941 ha | -10.4% |
| 1991 | 1,080 ha | +14.8% |
| 1992 | 1,099 ha | +1.8% |
| 1993 | 1,108 ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 1,100 ha | -0.7% |
| 1995 | 1,127 ha | +2.5% |
| 1996 | 1,138 ha | +1.0% |
| 1997 | 1,149 ha | +1.0% |
| 1998 | 1,140 ha | -0.8% |
| 1999 | 1,164 ha | +2.1% |
| 2000 | 1,150 ha | -1.2% |
| 2001 | 1,200 ha | +4.3% |
| 2002 | 1,250 ha | +4.2% |
| 2003 | 1,300 ha | +4.0% |
| 2004 | 1,350 ha | +3.8% |
| 2005 | 1,400 ha | +3.7% |
| 2006 | 1,375 ha | -1.8% |
| 2007 | 1,500 ha | +9.1% |
| 2008 | 1,300 ha | -13.3% |
| 2009 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 1,200 ha | -7.7% |
| 2011 | 1,455 ha | +21.2% |
| 2012 | 1,450 ha | -0.3% |
| 2013 | 1,480 ha | +2.1% |
| 2014 | 1,456 ha | -1.6% |
| 2015 | 1,456 ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1,469 ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 1,486 ha | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 1,503 ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 1,518 ha | +1.0% |
| 2020 | 1,535 ha | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 1,548 ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 1,550 ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,544 ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 1,548 ha | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 470 ha | 360 ha | 580 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 491.4 ha | 384 ha | 700 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 983.2 ha | 922 ha | 1,050 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,105 ha | 941 ha | 1,164 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,312 ha | 1,150 ha | 1,500 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,447 ha | 1,200 ha | 1,518 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,545 ha | 1,535 ha | 1,550 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Trinidad and Tobago
- 32 Jamaica 2,979 ha compare
- 33 Kenya 2,813 ha compare
- 34 El Salvador 1,977 ha compare
- 36 Guadeloupe 766 ha compare
- 37 Martinique 763 ha compare
- 38 Dominica 730 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Trinidad and Tobago
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -4.75 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0078 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 145.68 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.0602 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4603 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.8% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago was 1,548 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 1,550 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 360 ha in 1961.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 35th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — area harvested rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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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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.