Taro — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Taro — Yield was 12,336 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Taro — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for taro — yield in Trinidad and Tobago is 12,336 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.0% on the previous year and up 39.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, taro — yield in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 13,578 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 5,896 kg/ha, in 2018.
Trinidad and Tobago ranks 17th of 59 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,420 kg/ha | 10,909 kg/ha | 11,746 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,278 kg/ha | 10,811 kg/ha | 11,833 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,835 kg/ha | 8,594 kg/ha | 10,946 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,662 kg/ha | 8,889 kg/ha | 10,234 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,429 kg/ha | 10,128 kg/ha | 11,842 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,180 kg/ha | 5,896 kg/ha | 13,578 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,425 kg/ha | 6,936 kg/ha | 12,458 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Trinidad and Tobago
- Agriculture share gdp 0.7776 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.7776 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
- Rural population 46.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 629,587 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.8% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 199.33 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,246 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is taro — yield in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Taro — yield in Trinidad and Tobago was 12,336 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest taro — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 13,578 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest taro — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,896 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for taro — yield?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 17th out of 59 countries with data for 2024.
- Is taro — yield rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.