This is the eighteenth issue of the publication Selected indicators of food and agriculture development in Asia-Pacific region. It presents data on selected items for the years 1990-2000, except some tables which provide information for the period 1989-99. Most tables show two types of information: annual figures for 1990, 1997, 1998,1999 and 2000 and the average annual growth rate for the period 1990-2000. The indicators are grouped under the following headings: Agricultural land and population, Agricultural inputs, Production indices, Staple food crops, Edible oil crops, Horticultural crops, Fibre crops, Other crops, Livestock, Agricultural trade, Fisheries, Forestry, Nutrition and Other Indicators.
Countries of the region are shown under two groups: Developing countries and Developed countries. For comparison purposes, figures relating to “Rest of world” and “World” are also presented.
For almost all commodity tables, data are retrieved from the FAO computerized data base, especially FAOSTAT, or from the FAO Yearbooks. These, in turn, are based on information supplied by member countries.
The growth rates shown in the present publication have been worked out using the exponential growth method to indicate the overall regional performance and also to highlight inter-country differences.
Various units of FAO including the Statistics Division have cooperated with the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in the preparation of this publication, providing computer programmes and data bases for the production of tables. This collaboration is duly acknowledged.
R.B. Singh
Assistant Director-General and
Regional Representative for
Asia and the PacificBangkok, October 2001
