Cereal production rose 28.0% to 87.8 kt in Lesotho in 2015, according to Faostat.
Historically, cereal production in Lesotho reached an all time high of 288 kt in 1978 and an all time low of 30.2 kt in 2012. When compared to Lesotho's main peers, cereal production in Botswana amounted to 46.1 kt, 14,721 kt in South Africa, 82.2 kt in Swaziland and 1,039 kt in Zimbabwe in 2015.
Lesotho has been ranked 143rd within the group of 164 countries we follow in terms of cereal production, 3 places below the position seen 10 years ago.
| Cereal Production | Unit | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Botswana | kt | 54.4 | 50.3 | 79.1 | 52.8 | 43.8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lesotho | kt | 75.4 | 173 | 104 | 30.2 | 107 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mozambique | kt | 2,239 | 2,803 | 2,932 | 1,631 | 2,239 | ||||||||||||||||
| Namibia | kt | 112 | 137 | 117 | 166 | 87.0 | ||||||||||||||||
| South Africa | kt | 14,577 | 14,699 | 12,919 | 14,266 | 14,873 | ||||||||||||||||
| Swaziland | kt | 57.9 | 68.9 | 86.0 | 77.2 | 83.8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Zambia | kt | 2,200 | 3,101 | 3,374 | 3,203 | 2,900 | ||||||||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | kt | 883 | 1,405 | 1,699 | 1,160 | 998 |
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