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	Russian Federation	409,291	C	4,569,000	*
2	Canada	298,642	C	3,333,800
3	United States of America	149,531	C	1,669,250
4	Poland	117,473	C	1,311,378
5	Finland	105,525	C	1,178,000
6	Australia	100,688	C	1,124,000
7	Germany	86,678	C	967,600
8	China	71,664	C	800,000	F
9	Belarus	67,722	C	756,000	*
10	Sweden	66,907	C	746,900	*
11	Ukraine	65,393	C	730,000	*
12	Brazil	49,041	C	547,456
13	United Kingdom	48,015	C	536,000
14	Argentina	48,015	C	536,000
15	Spain	47,307	C	528,100
16	France	46,134	C	515,000
17	Italy	38,486	C	429,623
18	Romania	34,488	C	385,000
19	Chile	32,012	C	357,352
20	Norway	31,228	C	348,600

	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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