Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 3,504 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Trinidad and Tobago recorded 3,504 kg/ha for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 8,682 kg/ha in 1975 and was at its lowest, 3,321 kg/ha, in 2005.
Trinidad and Tobago ranks 45th of 50 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,263 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1963 | 5,670 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1964 | 5,744 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1965 | 5,669 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1966 | 6,022 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1967 | 5,198 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1968 | 5,534 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1969 | 5,670 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1970 | 5,709 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 5,741 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1972 | 5,600 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1973 | 5,609 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1974 | 6,721 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 1975 | 8,682 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 1976 | 8,250 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1977 | 7,234 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1978 | 6,847 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1979 | 4,714 kg/ha | -31.1% |
| 1980 | 3,682 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 1981 | 3,560 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1982 | 3,550 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1983 | 3,505 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1984 | 3,505 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 3,505 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 3,500 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1987 | 3,600 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1988 | 3,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 3,524 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1990 | 3,913 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1991 | 3,518 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1992 | 3,480 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1993 | 3,477 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1994 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1995 | 3,471 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 3,469 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1997 | 3,467 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1998 | 3,465 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1999 | 3,464 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2000 | 3,500 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2001 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 3,440 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2003 | 3,385 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2004 | 3,333 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 3,321 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2006 | 3,397 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2007 | 3,333 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2008 | 3,462 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 3,462 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 3,333 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2011 | 3,435 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2012 | 3,621 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2013 | 3,466 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2014 | 3,468 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 3,498 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2016 | 3,498 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 3,497 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 3,497 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 3,499 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 3,495 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 3,510 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 3,502 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 3,504 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,530 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 6,022 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,511 kg/ha | 4,714 kg/ha | 8,682 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,553 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 3,682 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,522 kg/ha | 3,464 kg/ha | 3,913 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,413 kg/ha | 3,321 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,481 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 3,621 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,502 kg/ha | 3,495 kg/ha | 3,510 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Trinidad and Tobago
- 42 Guinea 5,239 kg/ha compare
- 43 Equatorial Guinea 5,127 kg/ha compare
- 44 Uganda 4,393 kg/ha compare
- 46 Guinea-Bissau 3,181 kg/ha compare
- 47 Liberia 2,214 kg/ha compare
- 48 New Caledonia 1,940 kg/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 — yield in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Trinidad and Tobago was 3,504 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 Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 8,682 kg/ha in 1975.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,321 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 45th out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- 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 — 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.