Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 64,242 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 64,242 ha for vegetables primary — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.1% on the previous year and up 23.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 64,242 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 14,157 ha, in 1961.
Melanesia ranks 86th of 207 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 | 16,827 ha | 14,157 ha | 18,469 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 21,762 ha | 19,543 ha | 24,071 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 29,324 ha | 25,937 ha | 32,600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 36,747 ha | 32,975 ha | 42,726 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 46,414 ha | 42,720 ha | 50,374 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 51,807 ha | 48,384 ha | 55,419 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 60,962 ha | 57,263 ha | 64,242 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 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 — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Melanesia was 64,242 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 64,242 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,157 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 86th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.3%. 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 Vegetables Primary — Area harvested. 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.