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Table A.4.6 Sorghum: area, yield and production (countries with more than 10000ha sorghum)

	Area (harvested) '000 ha			Yield (kg/ha)			Production ('000 tonnes)
	1969/71	1979/81	1989/91	1969/71	1979/81	1989/91	1969/71	1979/81	1989/91
Latin America and Carib.	3518	4438	3438	2034	2793	2688	7155	12394	9241
Argentina	1979	1866	653	1932	3023	2947	3823	5641	1923
Bolivia	0	5	15	0	4059	3946	0	21	58
Brazil	1	81	158	2222	2128	1543	2	172	244
Colombia	64	220	256	2 407	2 223	2 878	153	488	737
Costa Rica	7	20	2	1631	1806	2067	11	35	3
Dominican Republic	4	6	10	3553	2983	2564	14	18	26
El Salvador	121	126	124	1 186	1 152	1272	144	145	158
Guatemala	50	39	56	916	2036	1519	46	80	84
Haiti	214	158	122	981	762	743	210	121	90
Honduras	36	61	73	1271	809	982	46	49	71
Mexico	930	1 491	1 607	2 767	3 347	3 172	2 573	4 991	5 096
Nicaragua	56	51	48	1016	1561	1546	57	80	74
Panama	0	9	11	0	2149	2457	0	19	26
Paraguay	4	7	1 9	1256	1278	1244	5	9	24
Peru	4	14	9	3056	3324	3188	11	46	27
Uruguay	42	56	31	1259	2018	2479	53	112	76
Venezuela	4	227	243	1333	1605	2123	5	365	516
Developed countries	6754	6474	5051	3100	3333	3388	20934	21576	17114
Western Europe	119	134	117	3411	4481	4839	405	601	568
EC-12	112	129	114	3498	4580	4922	393	589	561
France	55	75	70	3 709	4 436	4 577	203	332	320
Italy	5	14	24	3104	5127	5545	15	73	134
Spain	46	38	19	3681	4736	5559	168	181	105
Eastern Europe	34	49	50	1 414	1 635	1 725	48	81	85
Albania	24	25	24	1 112	1 200	1 173	27	30	29
Hungary	1	7	18	1625	3041	2888	1	22	52
Romania	2	17	7	1 130	1 659	681	3	28	5
Former USSR	43	90	120	1 425	1 189	1 136	62	107	136
North America	5820	5273	4055	3318	3633	3703	19314	19157	15017
United States	5820	5273	4055	3318	3633	3703	19314	19157	15017
Others	738	928	709	1 499	1 757	1 845	1 106	1 630	1 308
Australia	374	549	461	1 910	1 976	2 126	713	1 084	980
South Africa	358	377	248	1 050	1 434	1 320	376	540	327

Note: Data are shown only for countries which ID at least one of the three-year averages shown (1969/71, 1979/81, 1989/91) had 10000 ha or more of harvested land allocated to sorghum. The data are after the revision of the production of the former USSR from bunker to clean weight (see Table 3.17).

Table A.5 Land with rainfed crop production potential: 91 developing countries ('000 ha)
Table A.5 (continued)

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