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	Brazil	3,128,980	C	17,804,600
2	United States of America	1,452,714	C	8,266,270
3	Mexico	697,654	C	3,969,810	F
4	India	544,794	C	3,100,000	F
5	Italy	445,244	C	2,533,535
6	China	386,628	C	2,412,000	F
7	Spain	377,823	C	2,149,900
8	Iran, Islamic Rep of	333,906	C	1,900,000	F
9	Egypt	314,399	C	1,789,000	*
10	Indonesia	230,519	C	1,311,703
11	Turkey	219,675	C	1,250,000
12	Pakistan	205,440	C	1,169,000	F
13	South Africa	174,460	C	992,718
14	Greece	169,062	C	962,000	*
15	Morocco	142,349	C	810,000	*
16	Argentina	135,320	C	770,000	F
17	Viet Nam	96,657	C	550,000	F
18	Australia	87,870	C	500,000	F
19	Cuba	86,113	C	490,000	F
20	Syrian Arab Republic	75,041	C	427,000	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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