Table 1 Potato production, by region, 2009 and 2010
From: Low potato yields in Kenya: do conventional input innovations account for the yields disparity?
2009 | 2010 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country/region | Production (tons) | Area (Ha) | Yield/Ha | Production (tons) | Area (Ha) | Yield/Ha |
Kenya* | 2,299,090 | 120,246 | 19.12 | 2,725,940 | 121,542 | 22.43 |
Uganda | 689,000 | 101,000 | 6.82 | 695,000 | 102,000 | 6.81 |
Tanzania | 860,980 | 195,690 | 4.40 | 1,472,560 | 172,970 | 8.51 |
Eastern Africa | 9,414,400 | 866,491 | 10.86 | 11,403,695 | 912,817 | 12.49 |
Malawi | 3,427,660 | 161,923 | 21.17 | 3,673,540 | 160,600 | 22.87 |
South Africa | 1,866,580 | 55,000 | 33.94 | 2,090,210 | 62,200 | 33.60 |
North Africa | 8,446,031 | 376,750 | 22.42 | 9,522,840 | 386,350 | 24.65 |
Africa | 22,047,635 | 1,691,139 | 13.04 | 25,378,948 | 1,827,282 | 13.89 |
Asia | 145,841,189 | 9,031,772 | 16.15 | 159,055,291 | 9,193,486 | 17.30 |
European Union | 62,694,978 | 2,087,172 | 30.04 | 57,485,831 | 2,018,117 | 28.48 |
South America | 13,880,831 | 874,378 | 15.88 | 14,475,788 | 942,423 | 15.36 |
USA | 19,622,500 | 422,492 | 46.44 | 18,337,500 | 407,923 | 44.95 |
North America | 24,151,275 | 569,249 | 42.43 | 22,760,270 | 547,868 | 41.54 |
WORLD | 329,581,307 | 18,651,838 | 17.67 | 324,420,782 | 18,653,007 | 17.39 |