| Year. | Kilés. |
| 1914 | 1,957,944 |
| 1915 | 1,912,316 |
| 1916 | 1,953,628 |
| 1917 | 2,508,880 |
| 1918 | 3,080,710 |
These figures should be contrasted with British consular estimated average in the sixties of 960,000 bushels.
Oats
In Cyprus, oats are used on a far smaller scale than barley as food for cattle, and they are unknown, except to a few townsfolk, as a food for human beings.
The cultivation of this crop is restricted, partly because it ripens late and needs late rains, and partly because it sheds its ripe grain too quickly for the ordinary easy-going farmer, who frequently finds his next year's crop smothered with self-sown oats. It is also commonly held that the crop exhausts the soil.
There are two native varieties, both white. The one is grown much more than the other, called "anoyira," which, although incomparably superior, is little cultivated outside the Limassol district.
The seed is sown at the rate of 2 to 2½ kilés to the donum, and a yield of from 20 to 30 kilés is obtained. The average annual production for the ten years ended 1913, as shown by Blue Book returns, was 394,695 kilés. For later years the figures are:
| Year. | Kilés. |
| 1914 | 404,917 |
| 1915 | 378,724 |
| 1916 | 446,469 |
| 1917 | 306,010 |
| 1918 | 313,260 |
Besides "Black Tartar," which has been regularly grown at Athalassa for several years, the Agricultural Department has introduced of late years "Black Cluster," "White Cluster" and "Supreme." All these ripen late and need late rains, and they have not given any promise of success. A black variety imported from Greece some years ago has proved much superior to the two native varieties, but its cultivation is still limited.