Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 2,855 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for vegetables primary — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago is 2,855 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 23.7% on the previous year and down 11.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 4,066 ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 741 ha, in 1965.
Trinidad and Tobago ranks 153rd of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 748 ha | — |
| 1962 | 793 ha | +6.0% |
| 1963 | 820 ha | +3.4% |
| 1964 | 777 ha | -5.2% |
| 1965 | 741 ha | -4.6% |
| 1966 | 891 ha | +20.2% |
| 1967 | 1,091 ha | +22.4% |
| 1968 | 1,061 ha | -2.7% |
| 1969 | 1,091 ha | +2.8% |
| 1970 | 1,127 ha | +3.3% |
| 1971 | 1,455 ha | +29.1% |
| 1972 | 1,700 ha | +16.8% |
| 1973 | 2,052 ha | +20.7% |
| 1974 | 2,231 ha | +8.7% |
| 1975 | 2,059 ha | -7.7% |
| 1976 | 2,054 ha | -0.2% |
| 1977 | 2,045 ha | -0.4% |
| 1978 | 1,892 ha | -7.5% |
| 1979 | 1,985 ha | +4.9% |
| 1980 | 2,035 ha | +2.5% |
| 1981 | 1,970 ha | -3.2% |
| 1982 | 1,940 ha | -1.5% |
| 1983 | 1,497 ha | -22.8% |
| 1984 | 1,460 ha | -2.5% |
| 1985 | 1,375 ha | -5.8% |
| 1986 | 1,550 ha | +12.7% |
| 1987 | 1,402 ha | -9.5% |
| 1988 | 1,318 ha | -6.0% |
| 1989 | 1,453 ha | +10.2% |
| 1990 | 1,313 ha | -9.6% |
| 1991 | 1,634 ha | +24.4% |
| 1992 | 1,684 ha | +3.1% |
| 1993 | 1,700 ha | +1.0% |
| 1994 | 1,962 ha | +15.4% |
| 1995 | 2,102 ha | +7.1% |
| 1996 | 1,917 ha | -8.8% |
| 1997 | 1,988 ha | +3.7% |
| 1998 | 2,053 ha | +3.3% |
| 1999 | 1,474 ha | -28.2% |
| 2000 | 2,277 ha | +54.5% |
| 2001 | 2,193 ha | -3.7% |
| 2002 | 2,169 ha | -1.1% |
| 2003 | 2,283 ha | +5.3% |
| 2004 | 2,240 ha | -1.9% |
| 2005 | 2,038 ha | -9.0% |
| 2006 | 1,945 ha | -4.6% |
| 2007 | 3,795 ha | +95.1% |
| 2008 | 4,066 ha | +7.1% |
| 2009 | 3,651 ha | -10.2% |
| 2010 | 2,383 ha | -34.7% |
| 2011 | 2,879 ha | +20.8% |
| 2012 | 2,617 ha | -9.1% |
| 2013 | 3,117 ha | +19.1% |
| 2014 | 3,221 ha | +3.3% |
| 2015 | 3,309 ha | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 2,854 ha | -13.8% |
| 2017 | 3,412 ha | +19.6% |
| 2018 | 3,054 ha | -10.5% |
| 2019 | 2,676 ha | -12.4% |
| 2020 | 3,102 ha | +15.9% |
| 2021 | 2,366 ha | -23.7% |
| 2022 | 2,568 ha | +8.5% |
| 2023 | 3,743 ha | +45.8% |
| 2024 | 2,855 ha | -23.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 890.33 ha | 741 ha | 1,091 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,860 ha | 1,127 ha | 2,231 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,600 ha | 1,318 ha | 2,035 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,783 ha | 1,313 ha | 2,102 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,666 ha | 1,945 ha | 4,066 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,952 ha | 2,383 ha | 3,412 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,927 ha | 2,366 ha | 3,743 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago was 2,855 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 4,066 ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 741 ha in 1965.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 153rd out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- 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 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.