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	Grapes	4,294,236	C	9,256,814
2	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	2,792,370	C	10,500,000	F
3	Olives	2,058,257	C	4,114,293
4	Indigenous Cattle Meat	1,892,476	C	915,000	F
5	Tomatoes	1,851,584	C	7,814,899
6	Indigenous Pigmeat	1,488,596	C	1,470,000	F
7	Maize	1,234,276	C	10,622,000	*
8	Wheat	1,174,550	C	7,530,133
9	Indigenous Chicken Meat	816,494	C	700,000	*
10	Apples	630,412	C	2,194,875
11	Peaches and Nectarines	621,336	C	1,740,485
12	Hen Eggs	607,796	C	700,000	F
13	Sugar Beets	552,360	C	12,000,000	*
14	Vegetables Fresh nes	487,890	C	2,600,000	F
15	Oranges	445,244	C	2,533,535
16	Indigenous Turkey Meat	327,891	C	300,000	*
17	Rice, Paddy	291,824	C	1,370,000	*
18	Lettuce	287,895	C	846,800
19	Sheep Milk	278,275	C	820,000	F
20	Potatoes	262,553	C	1,810,086	*

	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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