Crop statistics from the FAO

When FairGrow has no harvest of yours to go on, it uses the national averages that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations publishes for every country: how much a crop yields per hectare, and what growers are paid for it at the farm gate.

Credit where it belongs

What FAOSTAT is

FAOSTAT is the statistical database of the FAO. Countries report their agricultural figures to the FAO every year, and the FAO checks, completes and publishes them for anyone to use under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0). It is the most complete comparable source of crop yields and producer prices in the world.

What we take from it, and how

Two datasets. Crops and livestock products (QCL) for area, production and yield per hectare, and Producer Prices (PP) for what growers receive per tonne, in US dollars and in the local currency.
Once a week we check, but rarely download. The FAO updates these datasets once or a few times a year. We only fetch them when the FAO publishes a new release, and keep everything on our own servers in a Dutch data centre.
Five years, not one. Yields and prices swing from year to year, so we use the average of the last five years that are available, and show the range.
Your country first. If a figure is missing for your country, we fall back to the region, and then to the world, and always say which one we used. A regional or world price is never presented as your farm-gate price.
Every crop checked by hand. The FAO groups crops by trade name; FairGrow works with botanical EPPO codes. Each link between the two was reviewed before it was used. Collective items such as “vegetables n.e.c.” are never linked automatically.

The release we use

Read live from our import log.

DomainFAO releaseLast checkedFigures in use
RP: 2026-07-302026-11-0926.503
QCL: Crops: area, production, yield per hectare2025-12-312026-11-091.115.512
PP: Producer (farm-gate) prices2026-10-092026-11-09519.124
TCL: Trade by country: imports and exports2026-07-242026-11-092.376.208
FBS: Food balances: production, trade, domestic supply2025-10-282026-11-091.451.221
PE: Exchange rates, annual average (fallback)2026-09-162026-11-095.885

Source: FAOSTAT, FAO (2026). Processed by FairGrow.

FAOSTAT figures lag behind: the most recent year is usually one to two years ago. That is why FairGrow prefers more recent prices where they exist, from the European Commission, national statistical offices and the FAO price monitoring tool, and uses FAOSTAT as the reference and fallback.

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