Usually, how many cavans of corn are harvested for a 1 hectare farm?

Question

Usually, how many cavans of corn are harvested for a 1 hectare farm?

Answer 1

Difficult question...

I'd not heard of cavans before, but it seems that this is a measure used for grain in the Philippines, equal to 44, 50 or 54 kg (I can't work out which).  How big are yours?

Do you mean corn in the UK sense: any cereal grain, including rice, wheat, oats, barley, maize etc?

Or in the American sense: just maize (corn-on-the-cob)?

Do you really mean a 1 ha farm?  Or do you mean per hectare of a larger farm?  A smaller farm may well have a higher productivity per hectare, but a larger farm may have higher profitability because of economies of scale.

Where in the world is this farm?  Productivity will be very different in different parts of the world.  One crop per year or more?  Do you want crop per harvest, or per year?

Is the farm intensive or not?  Organic or not?

Look at the link, and you'll find lots of useful figures for different countries.  The range is from about one ton to nearly ten tons per hectare for cereals -- but the various things I've mentioned above will make a lot of difference.  There is a row in the table for the Philippines.

Other units are also used for grain -- the US uses bushels, which is really a measure of volume, not weight, and must be very confusing.  One old British measure was the hundredweight, 112 lb -- this is very close to a cavan, at 50.9 kg.  A big sackful.

Answer 2

enough

Answer 3

If you would give a definition of cavans I could answer your question.  You might expect to get 100 bushels to 200 bushels (I'm using a middle figure of 150 bu/acre) per acre of corn. That converts to 7544Kg/Ha or roughly 7.5 tons of corn per hectare  So if you can convert that to cavans per hectare you would have a pretty good idea of the answer you are seeking.