Potatoes — Yield in USSR
USSR: Potatoes — Yield was 10,780 kg/ha in 1991. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Yield in USSR, 1961–1991
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 1991, potatoes — yield in USSR stood at 10,780 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 1.2% on the previous year and up 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — yield in USSR peaked at 13,680 kg/ha in 1986 and was at its lowest, 8,022 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places USSR 128th out of 153 countries with data for 1991, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Potatoes — Yield in USSR, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9,496 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,022 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 1963 | 8,453 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1964 | 10,993 kg/ha | +30.1% |
| 1965 | 10,297 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1966 | 10,469 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1967 | 11,459 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1968 | 12,310 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1969 | 11,331 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1970 | 12,002 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1971 | 11,737 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1972 | 9,840 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1973 | 13,496 kg/ha | +37.2% |
| 1974 | 10,149 kg/ha | -24.8% |
| 1975 | 11,211 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1976 | 12,008 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1977 | 11,837 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1978 | 12,230 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1979 | 13,070 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1980 | 9,673 kg/ha | -26.0% |
| 1981 | 10,542 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1982 | 11,401 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1983 | 12,047 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1984 | 12,520 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1985 | 11,300 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1986 | 13,680 kg/ha | +21.1% |
| 1987 | 12,167 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1988 | 10,050 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 1989 | 12,018 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1990 | 10,911 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1991 | 10,780 kg/ha | -1.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,314 kg/ha | 8,022 kg/ha | 12,310 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,758 kg/ha | 9,840 kg/ha | 13,496 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,540 kg/ha | 9,673 kg/ha | 13,680 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,845 kg/ha | 10,780 kg/ha | 10,911 kg/ha | 2 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — yield in USSR?
- Potatoes — yield in USSR was 10,780 kg/ha in 1991, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — yield recorded in USSR?
- The highest recorded value was 13,680 kg/ha in 1986.
- What is the lowest potatoes — yield recorded in USSR?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,022 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does USSR rank for potatoes — yield?
- USSR ranks 128th out of 153 countries with data for 1991.
- Is potatoes — yield rising or falling in USSR?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this USSR data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Potatoes — 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.