All figures below come from the official statistics of the Agency of Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan. They show the same pattern we found in the field: the country produces more potato every year, but mainly because it uses more land.
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Potato land has grown five times since 1991 — from 12,814 to 64,504 hectares
19.6 t/ha
Yield per hectare in 2024 — almost unchanged from 19.2 in 2019
−49.5
Thousand tonnes less mineral fertilizer used in 2024 than in 2021
Potato land expansion
Hectares of land under potato. The area has grown steadily — the main reason total production keeps rising.
Yield per hectare
Production divided by land area. Yield improved after 1991, then stopped. Since 2019 it has stayed near 19 tonnes per hectare while the land under potato kept expanding.
Mineral fertilizer used nationally
Total mineral fertilizer applied across the country, in thousand tonnes.
Potato — land, production and yield
Year
Land (hectares)
Production (tonnes)
Yield (t/ha)
1991
12,814
105,983
8.3
2019
51,756
994,433
19.2
2020
52,731
—
—
2021
—
1,041,316
—
2022
56,092
1,094,438
19.5
2024
64,504
1,263,950
19.6
Yield calculated as production divided by land area. Source: Agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan — A Book of Statistics, Agency of Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, 2024, pp. 24, 31–33.