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. 2016 Jul 7;5:885. Originally published 2016 May 13. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8657.2

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