Table 4 Global allocation of circa 2000 harvested area into three typologies of yield gap evolution
Steady growth | Stalled floor | Ceiling pressure | |
|---|---|---|---|
Area | Area | Area | |
Barley | 40.6% | 6.4% | 53% |
Cassava | 65.2% | 18.7% | 16.1% |
Maize | 60.3% | 14.6% | 25.1% |
Oil palm | 39.7% | 10.7% | 49.6% |
Rapeseed | 42.2% | 11% | 46.8% |
Rice | 12% | 3.9% | 84.2% |
Sorghum | 51.2% | 9.1% | 39.6% |
Soybean | 48% | 11.2% | 40.8% |
Sugar cane | 28.8% | 18% | 53.2% |
Wheat | 28.8% | 15.5% | 55.7% |
