Taro — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Taro — Yield was 9,568 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 9,568 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and up 12.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Melanesia peaked at 9,568 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,612 kg/ha, in 1990.
Melanesia ranks 24th of 59 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,049 kg/ha | 6,986 kg/ha | 7,214 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,075 kg/ha | 6,975 kg/ha | 7,262 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,274 kg/ha | 7,146 kg/ha | 7,467 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,998 kg/ha | 6,612 kg/ha | 7,324 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,502 kg/ha | 7,238 kg/ha | 7,761 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,562 kg/ha | 7,898 kg/ha | 9,066 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,181 kg/ha | 8,647 kg/ha | 9,568 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 2.34 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 8,430 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Melanesia?
- Taro — yield in Melanesia was 9,568 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 9,568 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,612 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Melanesia rank for taro — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 24th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.