Rice production

Indicator id: crop_production_rice · Unit: tonnes · Coverage: 1961-2023

Total quantity of rice (paddy) harvested for a given year, in tonnes.

Sources

• FAOSTAT (preferred) -- dataset QCL, code 27:5510 (https://www.fao.org/faostat)

Caveats

Item/element code (27:5510) not live-verified -- see file-header note. Rice is Nepal's single largest cereal crop by volume; production is strongly weather-dependent (monsoon timing/intensity) year to year.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 2.3 -- Double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers
Topic: Agriculture & Rural Development
Themes: food, rural

Also known as

"rice production", "how much rice does Nepal produce", "paddy production"

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