MAJOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES AND PRODUCERS

Food and Agricultural commodities production
	Commodities by country
	Countries by commodity
	Country rank in the world, by commodity

This page presents the 20 highest producing countries of a specific food and agricultural commodity for the year indicated. When applicable International commodity prices are used, to calculate the total value of each commodity produced by each country and subsequently used in the ranking of commodities and countries. They are applied in order to avoid the use of exchange rates for obtaining continental and world aggregates, and also to improve and facilitate international comparative analysis of productivity at the national level. Data is extracted from the FAOSTAT database. For detailed definitions of commodities and other notes, see technical notes.

Rank	Commodity	Production (Int $1000) Footnote		Production (MT) Footnote

1	United States of America	18,045,660	C	82,820,050
2	Brazil	10,936,990	C	50,195,000	*
3	Argentina	8,345,187	C	38,300,000
4	China	3,682,341	C	16,900,300	*
5	India	1,438,074	C	6,600,000
6	Paraguay	765,448	C	3,513,000
7	Canada	653,408	C	2,998,800
8	Bolivia	363,876	C	1,670,000	F
9	Indonesia	173,688	C	797,135
10	Italy	128,092	C	587,876
11	Russian Federation	127,901	C	587,000
12	Nigeria	101,319	C	465,000	F
13	Uruguay	82,145	C	377,000	F
14	Korea, Dem People's Rep	78,440	C	360,000	F
15	Serbia and Montenegro	72,339	C	332,000	F
16	Ukraine	67,546	C	310,000	*
17	South Africa	60,371	C	277,070
18	Romania	55,344	C	254,000
19	Viet Nam	53,383	C	245,000	F
20	Thailand	53,383	C	245,000	F

	No symbol = official figure F = FAO estimate	* = Unofficial figure C = Calculated figure
Production in Int $1000 have been calculated based on 1999-2001 international prices

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