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	Olives	350,189	C	700,000	F
2	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	247,324	C	930,000
3	Tomatoes	217,976	C	920,000
4	Wheat	212,133	C	1,360,000
5	Indigenous Chicken Meat	110,226	C	94,499	F
6	Indigenous Sheep Meat	108,785	C	54,990	F
7	Indigenous Cattle Meat	107,653	C	52,050	F
8	Chillies&Peppers, Green	88,688	C	257,000
9	Hen Eggs	72,067	C	83,000	F
10	Almonds	59,541	C	57,000
11	Potatoes	55,119	C	380,000	F
12	Grapes	53,348	C	115,000	F
13	Barley	42,365	C	435,000
14	Dates	39,184	C	125,000
15	Apples	37,339	C	130,000
16	Watermelons	36,494	C	350,000
17	Peaches and Nectarines	32,843	C	92,000	F
18	Onions+Shallots, Green	31,158	C	138,000	*
19	Indigenous Turkey Meat	26,811	C	24,530	F
20	Citrus Fruit nes	24,426	C	68,000	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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