Taro — 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...

Countries reporting
60
Highest
1.39 million ha
Nigeria
Lowest
0 ha
Palestine
Median
2,170 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,688

What the numbers show

Taro — Area harvested is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 1.39 million ha in Nigeria; the lowest is 0 ha in Palestine.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,170 ha, and the mean is 43,083 ha.

Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Mauritius (up 309.8%), and the largest decrease in Türkiye (down 100.0%).

Taro — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nigeria 1.39 million ha 2024 up 117.8% volatile
2 Cameroon 250,535 ha 2024 up 13.6% rising
3 Ghana 245,230 ha 2024 up 22.6% rising
4 China 100,324 ha 2024 up 3.2% rising
5 China, mainland 98,043 ha 2024 up 3.4% rising
5 Melanesia 42,983 ha 2024 down 4.4% rising
6 Ethiopia 72,391 ha 2024 up 51.0% rising
6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 18,972 ha 2024 up 6.7% volatile
7 Madagascar 39,102 ha 2024 up 3.4% rising
7 Lao People's Democratic Republic 7,414 ha 2024 down 38.2% falling
8 Papua New Guinea 35,288 ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
8 Polynesia 4,375 ha 2024 down 26.3% falling
9 Côte d'Ivoire 76,400 ha 2024 up 27.4% volatile
9 Guinea 29,571 ha 2024 up 57.0% volatile
9 Micronesia 361 ha 2024 up 0.8% rising
10 Rwanda 28,816 ha 2024 up 15.6% volatile
10 Türkiye 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
11 Chad 27,836 ha 2024 up 190.9% volatile
12 Central African Republic 15,914 ha 2024 down 2.3% rising
13 Philippines 15,107 ha 2024 down 1.8% falling
14 Gabon 14,932 ha 2024 up 5.9% rising
14 Caribbean 2,662 ha 2024 down 6.0% rising
15 Thailand 10,467 ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
16 Japan 9,070 ha 2024 down 29.7% falling
17 Burundi 8,523 ha 2024 down 51.4% falling
18 Togo 5,319 ha 2024 up 31.5% volatile
19 Fiji 3,406 ha 2024 down 49.8% volatile
20 Samoa 3,361 ha 2024 down 30.3% falling
21 Egypt 3,257 ha 2024 down 7.7% rising
22 Liberia 3,150 ha 2024 up 4.4% rising
23 Solomon Islands 2,724 ha 2024 up 3.7% rising
24 China, Taiwan Province of 2,280 ha 2024 down 7.4% falling
25 Dominica 2,059 ha 2024 up 3.8% rising
26 Comoros 1,710 ha 2024 up 27.2% rising
27 Sao Tome and Principe 1,637 ha 2024 up 1.8% volatile
28 French Guiana 1,607 ha 2006 up 111.4% volatile
29 Nicaragua 1,340 ha 2023 down 84.0% falling
30 Sierra Leone 1,144 ha 2024 down 6.5% volatile
31 Honduras 705 ha 2024 up 102.0% rising
32 Tonga 456 ha 2024 up 1.3% volatile
33 Niue 453 ha 2024 unchanged rising
34 Benin 391 ha 2024 down 24.7% volatile
35 Kiribati 361 ha 2024 up 0.8% rising
36 Trinidad and Tobago 301 ha 2024 down 46.7% falling
37 Panama 291 ha 2024 up 71.2% rising
38 Mauritius 250 ha 2024 up 309.8% volatile
39 Puerto Rico 195 ha 2024 up 29.1% rising
40 Guyana 153 ha 2024 up 53.0% volatile
41 French Polynesia 99 ha 2024 down 52.9% falling
42 New Caledonia 65 ha 2024 down 8.5% volatile
43 Cyprus 64 ha 2017 down 28.9% volatile
44 Lebanon 50 ha 2024 up 13.6% volatile
45 Saint Lucia 44 ha 2024 down 53.7% volatile
46 Bhutan 38 ha 2024 down 26.9% falling
47 Grenada 29 ha 2024 down 60.8% falling
48 Barbados 25 ha 2024 down 3.8% volatile
49 Antigua and Barbuda 9 ha 2024 down 18.2% volatile
50 Maldives 2 ha 2024 down 71.4% volatile
51 Republic of Korea 0 ha 1992 — volatile
51 Palestine 0 ha 2022 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Taro — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
83 places, 4,688 data points, 1961–2024
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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.