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 production of the 20 most important food and agricultural commodities (ranked by value) in a given country for the year indicated. 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	Indigenous Cattle Meat	4,446,802	C	2,150,000	F
2	Wheat	3,753,970	C	24,067,000
3	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	2,699,291	C	10,150,000
4	Indigenous Sheep Meat	1,319,506	C	667,000	F
5	Indigenous Chicken Meat	858,115	C	735,683	F
6	Wool, Greasy	857,013	C	508,791	F
7	Grapes	850,793	C	1,834,000
8	Sugar Cane	794,369	C	38,246,000	*
9	Barley	646,670	C	6,640,000
10	Indigenous Pigmeat	393,336	C	388,422	F
11	Rapeseed	319,478	C	1,125,000
12	Sorghum	213,238	C	1,748,000
13	Potatoes	188,565	C	1,300,000	F
14	Hen Eggs	147,608	C	170,000	F
15	Tomatoes	112,357	C	474,220	F
16	Lupins	108,683	C	912,000
17	Oats	100,688	C	1,124,000
18	Rice, Paddy	91,594	C	430,000
19	Oranges	87,870	C	500,000	F
20	Apples	80,422	C	280,000	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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