Land Under Cereal Production 2012

Report year 2012·Data year 2012

Land under cereal production (hectares)·Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a score·Published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 149 to 181 countries, from FAOSTAT and served through the World Bank's indicator API (AG.LND.CREL.HA). Hectares harvested for wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum and the rest. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER: this is an AREA, so it tracks a country's size and geography before it tracks its farming, and Russia and Malta cannot be compared on it. Its value is alongside CEREAL YIELD, already on the site — together they separate a country feeding itself by farming BETTER from one feeding itself by farming MORE LAND. ⚠ HARVESTED area, not planted area, so a failed harvest reduces it and a drought year shows up as lost land. ⚠ ZERO IS A REAL READING: Kuwait harvested no cereals at all in 1961, and several desert and island states still do not. ⚠ 2024 reports 79 countries and is not imported. The FAO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION is a SIZE ORDER derived here and labelled as ours.

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