Poppy seed — 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
Poppy seed — Area harvested is currently reported for 19 countries. The highest value is 32,586 ha in Czechia; the lowest is 40 ha in North Macedonia.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,012 ha, and the mean is 5,854 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 815.
Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 7 fell. The largest increase was in Croatia (up 244.0%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 73.3%).
Poppy seed — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czechia | 32,586 ha | 2017 | down 42.7% | rising |
| 2 | Türkiye | 17,013 ha | 2024 | down 36.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 14,798 ha | 1992 | up 76.6% | falling |
| 4 | Spain | 11,000 ha | 2017 | up 80.0% | volatile |
| 5 | France | 8,483 ha | 2017 | up 40.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Germany | 5,227 ha | 2017 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 7 | Hungary | 5,168 ha | 2017 | up 21.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Romania | 3,213 ha | 2017 | up 3.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Slovakia | 3,144 ha | 2017 | up 98.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Austria | 3,012 ha | 2017 | up 13.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Croatia | 2,752 ha | 2017 | up 244.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Yugoslav SFR | 1,200 ha | 1991 | down 37.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Serbia | 997 ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 872 ha | 2017 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Serbia and Montenegro | 850 ha | 2005 | down 44.0% | falling |
| 16 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 449 ha | 2017 | down 35.9% | volatile |
| 17 | Palestine | 222 ha | 2022 | up 6.2% | volatile |
| 18 | Denmark | 200 ha | 1995 | down 73.3% | volatile |
| 19 | North Macedonia | 40 ha | 2024 | down 54.5% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- European Union (27) 75,906 ha
- Eastern Europe 44,983 ha
- World 18,231 ha
- Western Asia 17,194 ha
- Asia 17,194 ha
- Western Europe 17,171 ha
- Southern Europe 1,037 ha
- Europe 1,037 ha
- Northern Europe 200 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 40 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.