Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Cereal yield

Cereal yield (kg per hectare)

The value for Cereal yield (kg per hectare) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 3,564 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,127 in 1993 and a minimum value of 1,859 in 1996.

Definition: Cereal yield, measured as kilograms per hectare of harvested land, includes wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and mixed grains. 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 and those used for grazing are excluded. The FAO allocates production data to the calendar year in which the bulk of the harvest took place. Most of a crop harvested near the end of a year will be used in the following year.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

See also:

Year Value
1961 2,502
1962 2,594
1963 2,746
1964 2,848
1965 2,539
1966 2,745
1967 2,542
1968 2,469
1969 2,903
1970 2,890
1971 2,972
1972 2,830
1973 3,092
1974 3,183
1975 3,247
1976 3,393
1977 3,547
1978 3,540
1979 3,674
1980 3,571
1981 3,837
1982 3,356
1983 3,443
1984 3,687
1985 3,713
1986 3,992
1987 3,821
1988 3,871
1989 3,964
1990 3,923
1991 5,608
1992 5,594
1993 6,127
1994 4,734
1995 2,511
1996 1,859
1997 1,995
1998 3,116
1999 2,857
2000 2,375
2001 3,016
2002 3,191
2003 3,250
2004 3,430
2005 3,368
2006 3,544
2007 2,922
2008 3,555
2009 3,364
2010 3,424
2011 3,586
2012 3,922
2013 3,980
2014 4,154
2015 4,458
2016 4,083
2017 4,045
2018 3,564

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Agricultural production