Why it matters, industry
Crop production
Growing cereals, oilseeds, fruit and vegetables; yield per hectare times harvested area.
- Depends on
- 1
- Depended on by
- 1
- Metrics
- 1
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Food system requires input Crop production3 evidenceEstablished relation
Food system depends on Crop production.
Mechanism
Cereals, oilseeds, fruit and vegetables come from crop production directly and, through animal feed, indirectly.
Evidence
- documentFAO, FAOSTATfao.orgCrop production, food balances and fertilizer use by country.checked 2026-09-07
- sourceFAOSTAT (seeded source)checked 2026-09-07
- metriccereal-yield
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.99
- Stated strength
- 1.00
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
Crop production requires input Synthetic fertilizer3 evidenceMechanism supported
Crop production depends on Synthetic fertilizer.
Mechanism
Yields depend on nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium supply, and synthetic fertilizer provides most of it on intensively farmed land. Manure, legume rotation and residue return substitute in part, and the response varies by soil and crop, so this is an agronomic mechanism rather than a fixed coefficient.
Evidence
- documentFAO, Land and Waterfao.orgSoil nutrients, irrigation and freshwater use in agriculture.checked 2026-09-07
- documentUSGS, Nitrogen (fixed), ammonia statistics and informationusgs.govAmmonia production from natural gas; fertilizer as the dominant end use; import reliance.checked 2026-09-07
- metriccereal-yield
- Status
- mechanism_supported
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.90
- Stated strength
- 0.70
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
- Cereal yieldObserved
measures WLD
3,954.95kg per hectareperiod 2024
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 1.00
- Downstream entities
- 1
- Direct dependents
- 1
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- agriculture (crops)
- arable farming
- cereal production
- crop farming
slug crop-production, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC