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Table 16.1 Global area, grain production and waste production of major crops.
Crop Area (Mha) Grain production (Mt) Residue production (Mt)

Cereals
Barley 54 141 212
Corn 138 609 609
Millet 37 29 44
Oats 13 27 27
Rice 152 593 890
Rye 10 23 35
Sorghum 43 58 87
Wheat 214 583 875
Others 10 23 23
Total 671 2086 2802

Legumes
Beans 23 17 17
Broad beans 2 4 4
Chick peas 9 6 6
Groundnut 26 35 35
Lentils 4 3 3
Peas 6 11 11
Pulses 66 52 52
Soybeans 76 177 177
Total 212 305 305
Oil crops

Linseed 3 2 2
Rapeseed 24 36 54
Safflower 1 0.6 1
Seed cotton 16 16 24
Sesame 8 3 6
Sunflower 18 21 21
Total 70 79 108

Sugar crops
Sugar beet 6 234 59
Sugarcane 19 1255 314
Total 25 1489 373
Tubers 322 234 59
Potato 193 308 77
Sweet potato 9 135 34
Total 524 677 170
Grand total 1502 4636 3758

Data from Lal, R., 2005. World crop residues production and implications of its use as a biofuel. Environ. Int., 31,
575 584.