Cereal yield

Kilograms of cereals harvested per hectare of land.

Cereal yield is the weight of wheat, rice, maize, barley and other grains harvested per hectare of the land sown with them, in kilograms. It is the plainest measure of how productive farming is, and of how far the Green Revolution of better seeds, fertiliser and irrigation has reached. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) compiles it from national statistics, and the World Bank republishes it.

• Food
• Agriculture
• Yields
• FAO
• Country
• Year