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The FAO wheat site offers one page per country, so I've taken the transpose to produce the table below.
One ton per hectare is 9.5 bushels per acre, these are figures from 2000.
It has been pointed out that they're in intercalated alphabetical order, which is in almost no case the right order to use. You can pick them up more usefully at Google Spreadsheet.
One ton per hectare is 9.5 bushels per acre, these are figures from 2000.
It has been pointed out that they're in intercalated alphabetical order, which is in almost no case the right order to use. You can pick them up more usefully at Google Spreadsheet.
kilotons | sq km | yield (tons per hectare) | |
Albania | 330 | 1320 | 2.5 |
Austria | 1313 | 2938 | 4.5 |
Belarus | 950 | 4250 | 2.2 |
Bosnia | 258 | 822.5 | 3.1 |
Croatia | 1080 | 2400 | 4.5 |
Denmark | 4700 | 6360 | 7.4 |
Finland | 550 | 1590 | 3.5 |
Georgia | 83.5 | 813 | 1.0 |
Greece | 1770 | 8562 | 2.1 |
Ireland | 706 | 810 | 8.7 |
Latvia | 410.3 | 1580 | 2.6 |
Macedonia | 320 | 1150 | 2.8 |
Netherlands | 1183 | 1383 | 8.6 |
Poland | 8276 | 26400 | 3.1 |
Romania | 4320 | 19100 | 2.3 |
Slovakia | 1266 | 4064 | 3.1 |
Spain | 7319 | 23778 | 3.1 |
Switzerland | 620 | 1000 | 6.2 |
UK | 16530 | 21000 | 7.9 |
Belgium | 1634 | 2287 | 7.1 |
Bulgaria | 2800 | 11000 | 2.5 |
Czech | 4116 | 9727 | 4.2 |
Estonia | 147 | 690 | 2.1 |
France | 37559 | 52690 | 7.1 |
Germany | 21634 | 29709 | 7.3 |
Hungary | 3709 | 10242 | 3.6 |
Italy | 7464 | 23177 | 3.2 |
Lithuania | 942 | 3265 | 2.9 |
Moldova | 770 | 3200 | 2.4 |
Norway | 293 | 600 | 4.9 |
Portugal | 429 | 2490 | 1.7 |
Russia | 36000 | 199520 | 1.8 |
Slovenia | 150 | 357 | 4.2 |
Sweden | 2530 | 4017 | 6.3 |
USA | 60800 | 253000 | 2.4 |
China | 99700 | 291000 | 3.4 |
India | 76400 | 249000 | 3.1 |
Ukraine | 10159 | 51515 | 2.0 |
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Date: 2007-07-01 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-01 07:59 pm (UTC)In graphical form
Date: 2007-07-01 09:44 pm (UTC)Re: In graphical form
Date: 2007-07-02 10:05 am (UTC)[the lines are 100kT, 1MT, 10MT, 100MT]
Re: In graphical form
Date: 2007-07-02 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-01 11:07 pm (UTC)Presumably high costs per yield push countries up the graph, and (incidentally) to the left [eg high labour costs] (so that fields with potential for lower-end yields are not profitable in those countries), whereas subsidies on production push the country down the graph and (incidentally) to the right.
It would be interesting to see
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Date: 2007-07-02 10:40 am (UTC)http://www.indiancommodity.com/Gen/wheat.htm says 550MT/year wheat production, of which 60% eaten by humans, so 300MT total world demand (fifty kilos per human per year; wheat produces about its own weight in wholemeal bread, so that's a loaf per human per week). That's a blue line half as far to the right of the rightmost one as the rightmost is from its left neighbour.
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Date: 2007-07-02 10:47 am (UTC)Even if it's fungible, though, I think the yield levelling should still take place, because wheat is easily transportable across markets, so each of the countries should be little more than a terroir and legislative regime in a single production market.