Vetches — Area harvested by country
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...
What the numbers show
Vetches — Area harvested is currently reported for 46 countries. The highest value is 602,000 ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Croatia.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,468 ha, and the mean is 27,607 ha.
Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Bulgaria (up 1,932.5%), and the largest decrease in Germany (down 100.0%).
Vetches — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 602,000 ha | 1991 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 2 | Ethiopia | 139,813 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 3 | Spain | 127,005 ha | 2017 | up 267.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 78,047 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Ethiopia PDR | 75,750 ha | 1992 | up 134.6% | rising |
| 6 | Australia and New Zealand | 36,895 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Australia | 36,895 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 8 | Syrian Arab Republic | 32,952 ha | 2024 | up 186.9% | falling |
| 9 | Greece | 31,977 ha | 2017 | up 274.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Belarus | 11,325 ha | 2024 | down 62.6% | falling |
| 11 | Yugoslav SFR | 10,500 ha | 1991 | down 5.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Serbia | 8,746 ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 13 | Sweden | 8,546 ha | 1995 | down 78.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 8,455 ha | 2017 | up 1,932.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Italy | 7,827 ha | 2017 | up 11.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Serbia and Montenegro | 7,697 ha | 2005 | up 41.7% | rising |
| 17 | Poland | 6,620 ha | 2017 | up 158.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Albania | 6,479 ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | falling |
| 19 | Mexico | 5,244 ha | 2024 | down 47.0% | falling |
| 20 | Morocco | 3,524 ha | 2024 | down 16.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Eritrea | 3,030 ha | 2024 | down 10.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Ukraine | 2,900 ha | 2024 | down 74.8% | volatile |
| 23 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,475 ha | 2024 | up 434.6% | volatile |
| 24 | Austria | 2,462 ha | 2017 | up 122.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Czechoslovakia | 2,280 ha | 1992 | up 60.7% | volatile |
| 26 | North Macedonia | 1,976 ha | 2024 | up 1.8% | falling |
| 27 | Palestine | 1,295 ha | 2022 | down 61.3% | falling |
| 28 | Iraq | 1,291 ha | 2024 | down 6.3% | rising |
| 29 | Türkiye | 1,235 ha | 2024 | down 97.8% | volatile |
| 30 | Israel | 1,000 ha | 1991 | down 9.1% | rising |
| 31 | Egypt | 754 ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 32 | Jordan | 498 ha | 2024 | down 94.3% | volatile |
| 33 | Azerbaijan | 439 ha | 2024 | up 57.9% | volatile |
| 34 | Lithuania | 434 ha | 2017 | down 77.2% | volatile |
| 35 | Lebanon | 289 ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | volatile |
| 36 | Slovakia | 226 ha | 2017 | up 222.9% | volatile |
| 37 | Malta | 215 ha | 2017 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 38 | Latvia | 200 ha | 2017 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Cyprus | 158 ha | 2017 | up 68.1% | volatile |
| 40 | Algeria | 153 ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | volatile |
| 41 | Republic of Moldova | 102 ha | 2024 | down 20.3% | volatile |
| 41 | Tunisia | 102 ha | 2024 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 43 | Czechia | 80 ha | 2017 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 44 | Hungary | 25 ha | 2017 | down 7.4% | volatile |
| 45 | Germany | 0 ha | 1995 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 45 | Croatia | 0 ha | 2012 | down 100.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 339,463 ha
- European Union (27) 185,683 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 175,795 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 147,720 ha
- Africa 147,376 ha
- Eastern Africa 142,843 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 142,843 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 142,330 ha
- Europe 112,050 ha
- Eastern Europe 92,374 ha
- Western Asia 37,899 ha
- Asia 37,899 ha
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.