Taro — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Taro — Yield was 15,364 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, taro — yield in Eastern Africa stood at 15,364 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 5.8% on the previous year and up 20.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 16,121 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 3,422 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Eastern Africa 6th out of 24 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,643 kg/ha | 5,440 kg/ha | 5,745 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,336 kg/ha | 5,081 kg/ha | 5,638 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,532 kg/ha | 5,250 kg/ha | 5,678 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,567 kg/ha | 3,422 kg/ha | 11,826 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,386 kg/ha | 10,346 kg/ha | 13,792 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,998 kg/ha | 10,891 kg/ha | 14,260 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,260 kg/ha | 14,517 kg/ha | 16,121 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 205,889 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 641,088 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.08 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 546,014 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 3.49 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.53 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 16,968 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 23.97 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 63,544 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 42 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Taro — yield in Eastern Africa was 15,364 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 16,121 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,422 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for taro — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 6th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Taro — Yield. 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.