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	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	518,583	C	1,950,000	F
2	Grapes	463,900	C	1,000,000	F
3	Tomatoes	278,393	C	1,175,000
4	Indigenous Pigmeat	277,229	C	273,766	F
5	Indigenous Cattle Meat	242,099	C	117,053	F
6	Indigenous Chicken Meat	217,734	C	186,669	F
7	Potatoes	181,312	C	1,250,000	F
8	Olives	135,073	C	270,000	F
9	Hen Eggs	114,613	C	132,000	F
10	Vegetables Fresh nes	108,837	C	580,000	F
11	Maize	81,340	C	700,000	*
12	Apples	70,656	C	246,000
13	Indigenous Turkey Meat	46,665	C	42,696	F
14	Oranges	43,935	C	250,000	F
15	Indigenous Sheep Meat	43,275	C	21,875	F
16	Wheat	42,894	C	275,000	*
17	Pears	37,304	C	131,000
18	Sheep Milk	33,257	C	98,000	F
19	Lettuce	32,298	C	95,000	F
20	Chestnuts	31,045	C	24,800	*

	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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