Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 22,976 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Melanesia stood at 22,976 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 1,109.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Melanesia peaked at 23,800 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 28.6 kg/ha, in 1992.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,571 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,571 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,571 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,000 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1965 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 4,625 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1971 | 4,625 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,375 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1973 | 4,375 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 4,375 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,375 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 4,500 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1977 | 4,625 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1978 | 4,750 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1979 | 4,875 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1980 | 5,000 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1981 | 1,575 kg/ha | -68.5% |
| 1982 | 1,250 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 1983 | 1,147 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1984 | 773.8 kg/ha | -32.5% |
| 1985 | 857.1 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1986 | 1,000 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1987 | 1,200 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1988 | 1,500 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 1989 | 1,714 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1990 | 2,067 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 1991 | 96.6 kg/ha | -95.3% |
| 1992 | 28.6 kg/ha | -70.4% |
| 1993 | 380 kg/ha | +1228.7% |
| 1994 | 413.8 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1995 | 857.1 kg/ha | +107.1% |
| 1996 | 1,720 kg/ha | +100.7% |
| 1997 | 1,600 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 1998 | 1,933 kg/ha | +20.8% |
| 1999 | 1,964 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2000 | 1,918 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2001 | 1,836 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2002 | 1,950 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2003 | 1,800 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2004 | 2,007 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 2005 | 2,056 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2006 | 1,965 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2007 | 1,988 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2008 | 2,141 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2009 | 1,882 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 2010 | 2,128 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 2011 | 2,022 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2012 | 2,009 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2013 | 2,022 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 1,900 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2015 | 11,180 kg/ha | +488.4% |
| 2016 | 15,058 kg/ha | +34.7% |
| 2017 | 20,162 kg/ha | +33.9% |
| 2018 | 19,609 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2019 | 23,800 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 2020 | 19,201 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2021 | 23,126 kg/ha | +20.4% |
| 2022 | 21,637 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2023 | 22,872 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2024 | 22,976 kg/ha | +0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,857 kg/ha | 3,571 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,550 kg/ha | 4,375 kg/ha | 4,875 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,602 kg/ha | 773.8 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,106 kg/ha | 28.6 kg/ha | 2,067 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,954 kg/ha | 1,800 kg/ha | 2,141 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,989 kg/ha | 1,900 kg/ha | 23,800 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 21,962 kg/ha | 19,201 kg/ha | 23,126 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Melanesia?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Melanesia was 22,976 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 23,800 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 28.6 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Melanesia rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 1st out of 12 regions with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1,109.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Melanesia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield. 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.