Table 3. Dryland cereal and legume crop yield in 18 priority farming systems worldwide.
FARMING
SYSTEMS |
REGION | BARLEY
(YIELD kg/ha) |
BEAN
(YIELD kg/ha) |
CHICKPEA
(YIELD kg/ha) |
COWPEA
(YIELD kg/ha) |
GROUNDNUT
(YIELD kg/ha) |
LENTIL
(YIELD kg/ha) |
PEARL-
MILLET (YIELD kg/ha) |
SMALL-
MILLET (YIELD kg/ha) |
PIGEONPEA
(YIELD kg/ha) |
SORGHUM
(YIELD kg/ha) |
SOYBEAN
(YIELD kg/ha) |
FABA
BEAN (YIELD kg/ha) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cereal-root
crop mixed |
SSA | 1,184 | 477 | 655 | 638 | 1,177 | 759 | 1,150 | 751 | 622 | 1,011 | 849 | 1,617 |
Maize mixed | SSA | 1,837 | 525 | 465 | 564 | 724 | 738 | 551 | 1,436 | 671 | 859 | 1,155 | 1,071 |
Agro-pastoral
millet/sorghum |
SSA | 3,107 | 477 | 576 | 365 | 830 | 0 | 736 | 0 | 658 | 769 | 565 | 1,771 |
Pastoral | SSA | 1,254 | 562 | 820 | 217 | 714 | 894 | 471 | 1,585 | 604 | 611 | 531 | 1,144 |
Rice-wheat | SA | 2,087 | 491 | 735 | 0 | 822 | 830 | 1,171 | 1,046 | 939 | 659 | 1,411 | 0 |
Rainfed mixed | SA | 1,559 | 339 | 842 | 1,029 | 1,063 | 512 | 832 | 850 | 708 | 910 | 1,003 | 0 |
Dry rainfed | SA | 0 | 212 | 895 | 0 | 716 | 0 | 704 | 809 | 495 | 687 | 785 | 0 |
Highland
mixed |
MENA | 1,418 | 1,912 | 505 | 667 | 2,416 | 490 | 1,776 | 694 | 0 | 805 | 2,383 | 646 |
Rainfed mixed | MENA | 915 | 793 | 659 | 722 | 2,456 | 906 | 1,874 | 823 | 0 | 804 | 1,461 | 560 |
Dryland mixed | MENA | 933 | 1,554 | 644 | 759 | 2,536 | 942 | 1,586 | 1,046 | 0 | 1,208 | 2,313 | 707 |
Pastoral | MENA | 1,416 | 2,529 | 717 | 2,302 | 2,716 | 689 | 1,412 | 721 | 0 | 2,019 | 3,188 | 2,138 |
Maize-beans
(Mesoamerica) |
LAC | 2,866 | 680 | 1,535 | 0 | 1,459 | 885 | 0 | 0 | 424 | 4,571 | 2,487 | 706 |
Large scale
cereal- vegetable |
EECA | 2,240 | 1,375 | 2,051 | 0 | 0 | 1,311 | 0 | 1,207 | 0 | 1,958 | 1,373 | 1,135 |
Small scale
cereal- livestock |
EECA | 2,705 | 1,534 | 1,036 | 0 | 3,195 | 1,312 | 0 | 1,949 | 0 | 0 | 4,131 | 1,870 |
Extensive
cereal- livestock |
EECA | 1,619 | 1,679 | 967 | 0 | 1,607 | 971 | 2,362 | 1,039 | 0 | 1,421 | 1,149 | 1,192 |
Lowland rice | EAP | 4,253 | 1,074 | 4,604 | 1,000 | 2,964 | 2,423 | 1,855 | 1,027 | 1,013 | 3,756 | 1,764 | 1,640 |
Upland
intensive mixed |
EAP | 3,383 | 1,008 | 1,234 | 969 | 2,150 | 1,616 | 1,775 | 934 | 1,041 | 3,555 | 1,474 | 1,640 |
Temperate
mixed |
EAP | 4,320 | 1,423 | 3,555 | 0 | 3,380 | 1,783 | 2,384 | 1,040 | 0 | 4,698 | 1,822 | 1,640 |