Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in Central Asia
Central Asia: Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested was 428,518 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in Central Asia, 1992–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Central Asia recorded 428,518 ha for roots and tubers, total — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 33 years on record.
The figure is up 9.3% on the previous year and up 45.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, roots and tubers, total — area harvested in Central Asia peaked at 428,518 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 258,864 ha, in 2010.
That places Central Asia 22nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 33 years of available data.
Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in Central Asia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 328,730 ha | — |
| 1993 | 326,000 ha | -0.8% |
| 1994 | 325,300 ha | -0.2% |
| 1995 | 301,000 ha | -7.5% |
| 1996 | 293,540 ha | -2.5% |
| 1997 | 303,271 ha | +3.3% |
| 1998 | 297,318 ha | -2.0% |
| 1999 | 292,475 ha | -1.6% |
| 2000 | 310,817 ha | +6.3% |
| 2001 | 319,621 ha | +2.8% |
| 2002 | 294,198 ha | -8.0% |
| 2003 | 332,584 ha | +13.0% |
| 2004 | 343,195 ha | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 332,015 ha | -3.3% |
| 2006 | 326,943 ha | -1.5% |
| 2007 | 338,450 ha | +3.5% |
| 2008 | 349,476 ha | +3.3% |
| 2009 | 363,613 ha | +4.0% |
| 2010 | 258,864 ha | -28.8% |
| 2011 | 280,273 ha | +8.3% |
| 2012 | 287,081 ha | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 298,274 ha | +3.9% |
| 2014 | 293,924 ha | -1.5% |
| 2015 | 310,187 ha | +5.5% |
| 2016 | 315,673 ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 306,490 ha | -2.9% |
| 2018 | 331,304 ha | +8.1% |
| 2019 | 341,865 ha | +3.2% |
| 2020 | 352,599 ha | +3.1% |
| 2021 | 365,599 ha | +3.7% |
| 2022 | 393,174 ha | +7.5% |
| 2023 | 391,913 ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 428,518 ha | +9.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested in Central Asia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | -28.8% | 363,613 ha | 258,864 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 308,454 ha | 292,475 ha | 328,730 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 331,091 ha | 294,198 ha | 363,613 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 302,394 ha | 258,864 ha | 341,865 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 386,361 ha | 352,599 ha | 428,518 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central Asia
- 19 Guinea 531,646 ha compare
- 19 Micronesia 1,743 ha compare
- 20 Benin 520,628 ha compare
- 20 Micronesia (Federated States of) 1,382 ha compare
- 20 Caribbean 509,376 ha compare
- 21 Peru 505,494 ha compare
- 22 Ethiopia PDR 501,700 ha
- 23 Bangladesh 484,932 ha compare
- 24 Burundi 472,373 ha compare
- 25 Ethiopia 451,283 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Central Asia
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production 5.34 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Gross Production 3.49 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value -0.7329 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 1.81 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Non Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.59 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.99 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) -0.2181 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 2.87 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is roots and tubers, total — area harvested in Central Asia?
- Roots and tubers, total — area harvested in Central Asia was 428,518 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest roots and tubers, total — area harvested recorded in Central Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 428,518 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest roots and tubers, total — area harvested recorded in Central Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 258,864 ha in 2010.
- How does Central Asia rank for roots and tubers, total — area harvested?
- Central Asia ranks 22nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is roots and tubers, total — area harvested rising or falling in Central Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 45.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central Asia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Roots and Tubers, Total — 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.