Taro — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Taro — Yield was 6,985 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Taro — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 6,985 kg/ha for taro — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 8,527 kg/ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 3,007 kg/ha, in 1974.
That places Middle Africa 20th out of 24 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom 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 | 3,902 kg/ha | 3,100 kg/ha | 4,734 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,274 kg/ha | 3,007 kg/ha | 3,595 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,836 kg/ha | 3,505 kg/ha | 4,136 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,550 kg/ha | 3,922 kg/ha | 5,792 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,235 kg/ha | 5,353 kg/ha | 8,527 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,239 kg/ha | 6,702 kg/ha | 8,221 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,989 kg/ha | 6,836 kg/ha | 7,127 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 113,974 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 19,128 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 2.18 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 16,416 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 13,891 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 511,443 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 4.75 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 57 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 270,208 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 8.08 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Middle Africa?
- Taro — yield in Middle Africa was 6,985 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 8,527 kg/ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,007 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Middle Africa rank for taro — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 20th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle 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.