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...
What the numbers show
Taro — Area harvested is currently reported for 59 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 2,059 ha, and the mean is 43,544 ha.
Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 27 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 6 | Côte d'Ivoire | 76,400 ha | 2024 | up 27.4% | volatile |
| 7 | Ethiopia | 72,391 ha | 2024 | up 51.0% | rising |
| 8 | Melanesia | 42,983 ha | 2024 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 9 | Madagascar | 39,102 ha | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 10 | Papua New Guinea | 35,288 ha | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 11 | Guinea | 29,571 ha | 2024 | up 57.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Rwanda | 28,816 ha | 2024 | up 15.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Chad | 27,836 ha | 2024 | up 190.9% | volatile |
| 14 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 18,972 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Philippines | 15,107 ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 16 | Gabon | 14,932 ha | 2024 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 17 | Thailand | 10,467 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 18 | Japan | 9,070 ha | 2024 | down 29.7% | falling |
| 19 | Burundi | 8,523 ha | 2024 | down 51.4% | falling |
| 20 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 7,414 ha | 2024 | down 38.2% | falling |
| 21 | Togo | 5,319 ha | 2024 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 22 | Polynesia | 4,375 ha | 2024 | down 26.3% | falling |
| 23 | Fiji | 3,406 ha | 2024 | down 49.8% | volatile |
| 24 | Samoa | 3,361 ha | 2024 | down 30.3% | falling |
| 25 | Egypt | 3,257 ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | rising |
| 26 | Liberia | 3,150 ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 27 | Solomon Islands | 2,724 ha | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 28 | Caribbean | 2,662 ha | 2024 | down 6.0% | rising |
| 29 | China, Taiwan Province of | 2,280 ha | 2024 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 30 | Dominica | 2,059 ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 31 | Comoros | 1,710 ha | 2024 | up 27.2% | rising |
| 32 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1,637 ha | 2024 | up 1.8% | volatile |
| 33 | French Guiana | 1,607 ha | 2006 | up 111.4% | volatile |
| 34 | Nicaragua | 1,340 ha | 2023 | down 84.0% | falling |
| 35 | Sierra Leone | 1,144 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | volatile |
| 36 | Honduras | 705 ha | 2024 | up 102.0% | rising |
| 37 | Tonga | 456 ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | volatile |
| 38 | Niue | 453 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 39 | Benin | 391 ha | 2024 | down 24.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Micronesia | 361 ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 40 | Kiribati | 361 ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 42 | Trinidad and Tobago | 301 ha | 2024 | down 46.7% | falling |
| 43 | Panama | 291 ha | 2024 | up 71.2% | rising |
| 44 | Mauritius | 250 ha | 2024 | up 309.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Puerto Rico | 195 ha | 2024 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 46 | Guyana | 153 ha | 2024 | up 53.0% | volatile |
| 47 | French Polynesia | 99 ha | 2024 | down 52.9% | falling |
| 48 | New Caledonia | 65 ha | 2024 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 49 | Cyprus | 64 ha | 2017 | down 28.9% | volatile |
| 50 | Lebanon | 50 ha | 2024 | up 13.6% | volatile |
| 51 | Saint Lucia | 44 ha | 2024 | down 53.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Bhutan | 38 ha | 2024 | down 26.9% | falling |
| 53 | Grenada | 29 ha | 2024 | down 60.8% | falling |
| 54 | Barbados | 25 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | volatile |
| 55 | Antigua and Barbuda | 9 ha | 2024 | down 18.2% | volatile |
| 56 | Maldives | 2 ha | 2024 | down 71.4% | volatile |
| 57 | Türkiye | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 57 | Republic of Korea | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 57 | 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.
- World 2.43 million ha
- Africa 2.24 million ha
- Western Africa 1.75 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 506,493 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 366,847 ha
- Middle Africa 329,827 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 264,977 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 160,933 ha
- Eastern Africa 150,793 ha
- Asia 142,471 ha
- Eastern Asia 109,394 ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 54,134 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.