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)